Oh same here! I suppose "On Photography" is a standard intro/starting point to Sontag's work. Her observations, 40 (?) or so years go, was so on point with our society today...
"Needing to have reality confirmed and experience enhanced by photographs is an aesthetic consumerism to which everyone is now addicted." ~ S.S.
Indeed, rather eeire when you think of today's context, with everyone's experiences being reduced to visual snapshots. Damn, I need to reread that book again. Thanks for reminding it to me!
Oh same here! I suppose "On Photography" is a standard intro/starting point to Sontag's work. Her observations, 40 (?) or so years go, was so on point with our society today...
Indeed, rather eeire when you think of today's context, with everyone's experiences being reduced to visual snapshots. Damn, I need to reread that book again. Thanks for reminding it to me!