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Appropriate Quotes by Susan Sontag
- To photograph is to appropriate the thing photographed. It means putting oneself into a certain relation to the world that feels like knowledge-and therefore, like…
- Just as a camera is a sublimation of the gun, to photograph someone is a subliminal murder - a soft murder, appropriate to a sad,…
- To photograph people is to violate them, by seeing them as they never see themselves, by having knowledge of them that they can never have;…
- Gide and I have attained such perfect intellectual communion that I experience the appropriate labor pains for every thought he gives birth to!
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