Quotes Tagged With :sontag

Compassion is an unstable emotion. It needs to be translated into action, or it withers.

Narratives can make us understand. Photographs do something else: they haunt us.

Is there an antidote to the perennial seductiveness of war? And is this a question a woman is more likely....

It is a view of suffering, of the pain of others, that is rooted in religious thinking, which links pain....

Photographs objectify: they turn an event or a person into something that can be possessed.

Making suffering loom larger, by globalizing it, may spur people to feel they ought to "care" more.

With time, many staged photographs turn back into historical evidence, albeit of an impure kind - like....

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

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

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