Susan Sontag Photography: A Little SummaArt Blart

May 2012

Eugene Atget (French, 1857-1927)
Au Tambour, 63 quai de la Tournelle
1908

The second photograph ever published on Art Blart on the very first day. Ghosts in the machine (Asimov)…

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The third posting on the first day was a quotation by Susan Sontag about photography, an auspicious way to start.

Sontag, Susan. “Photography: A Little Summa”

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November 2008

“5. In a modern society, images made by cameras are the principal access to realities of which we have no direct experience. And we are expected to receive and to register an unlimited number of images of what we don’t directly experience. The camera defines for us what we allow to be “real” – and it continually pushes forward the boundary of the real. Photographers are particularly admired if they reveal hidden truths about themselves or less than fully reported social conflicts in societies both near and far from where the viewer lives.”

Sontag, Susan. “Photography: A Little Summa,” in Sontag, Susan. At the Same Time: Essays and Speeches. London: Hamish Hamilton, 2007, p. 125.

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