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Posted On: November 17th 2025, 11:11 pm
"…reality has come to seem more and more like what we are shown by cameras. It is common now for people to insist about their experience of a violent event in which they were caught up - a plane crash, a shoot out, a terrorist bombing - that ‘it seemed like a movie’."
On Photography
Susan Sontag
IMAGES: Kevin Bubriski (from Pilgrimage: Looking at Ground Zero.)
@kevinbubriski
#photography #SusanSontag #kevinbubriski #911 #GroundZero
On Photography
Susan Sontag
IMAGES: Kevin Bubriski (from Pilgrimage: Looking at Ground Zero.)
@kevinbubriski
#photography #SusanSontag #kevinbubriski #911 #GroundZero
Comments (2)
a year agopeterwegnerstudio
We speak in cultural shorthand. This phenomenon owes less to the intrinsic properties of photography & more to its role the ascendant metaphor in the cultural imaginary. We *saw* the world through its lens. Now computers & AI occupy much of that same territory. *Stop glitching at me!*
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