Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/09/26
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"There is an agression implicit in every use of the Camera."
"Recently, photography has become almost as widely practiced an amusement as
sex and dancing..."
"A way of certifying experience, taking photographs is also a way of refusing
it-- by limiting experience to a search for the photogenic, by converting
experience into an image, a souvenir."
"it would not be wrong to speak of people having a ' compulsion' to
photograph: to turn experience itself into a way of seeing."
"Needing to have reality confirmed and experienced enhanced by photographs is
an aesthetic consumerism to which everyone is now adicted."
--Susan Sontag
Arthur