Despite the illusion of giving understanding, what seeing through photographs really invites is an acquisitive relation to the world that nourishes aesthetic awareness and promotes emotional detachment.
Susan SontagPhotographs furnish evidence. Something we hear about, but doubt, seems proven when we're shown a photograph of it.
Susan SontagIn every society, the definitions of sanity and madness are arbitrary - are, in the largest sense, political.
Susan Sontag