Quotes Tagged With :sontag

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

Perhaps too much value is assigned to memory, not enough to thinking. Remembering is an ethical act,....

Up to a point, the weight and seriousness of such photographs survive better in a book, where one can....

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

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

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

In fact, there are many uses of the innumerable opportunities a modern life supplies for regarding -....

During the Bosnian war in the late 1990s, I spent several days traveling around the country with Susan....

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

The memory of war, however, like all memory, is mostly local.