Photographs furnish evidence. Something we hear about, but doubt, seems proven when we're shown a photograph of it.
Susan SontagTo read was precisely to enter another world, which was not the reader's own, and come back refreshed, ready to bear with equanimity the injustices and frustrations of this one. Reading was balm, amusement not incitement.
Susan SontagWhen you are writing, you are - from society's point of view - only producing the first version which will then be processed and recycled.
Susan SontagIt's almost as if this is the fundamental procedure in modern society: duplication and recycling.
Susan SontagLiterature can train, and exercise, our ability to weep for those who are not us or ours.
Susan SontagTo us, the difference between the # photographer as an individual eye and the photographer as an objective recorder seems fundamental, the difference often regarded, mistakenly, as separating photography as art from # photography as document. But both are logical extensions of what photography means: note-taking on, potentially, everything in the world, from every possible angle.
Susan Sontag