Quotes Tagged With :sontag

No "we" should be taken for granted when the subject is looking at other people's pain.

Reading usually precedes writing. And the impulse to write is almost always fired by reading. Reading,....

It is intolerable to have one's sufferings twinned with anybody else's.

Photographs that depict suffering shouldn't be beautiful, as captions shouldn't moralize.

To take a picture is to have an interest in things as they are, in the status quo remaining unchanged,....

It is felt that there is something morally wrong with the abstract of reality offered by photography;....

We" - this "we" is everyone who has never experienced anything like what they went through - don't understand.....

Often something looks, or is felt to look, "better" in a photograph. Indeed, it is one of the functions....

One can feel obliged to look at phototgraphs that record great cruelties and crimes. One should feel....

All memory is individual, unreproducible - it dies with each person. What is called collective memory....