Susan Sontag

8 beliefs on korrents (opens korrents.com)

• A photograph is never simply transparent: to photograph is to frame, and to frame is to exclude (opens korrents.com)

  “But the photographic image, even to the extent that it is a trace (not a construction made out of disparate photographic traces), cannot be simply a transparency of something that happened. It is always the image that…”

  2002-12-02

• Disgust and pity at war pictures should not distract from asking whose cruelties and deaths are not being shown (opens korrents.com)

  “And the disgust and pity that pictures like Hicks’s inspire should not distract from asking what pictures, whose cruelties, whose deaths you are not being shown.”

  2002-12-02

• The problem is not remembering through photographs but remembering only the photographs, which eclipses other understanding (opens korrents.com)

  “The problem is not that people remember through photographs but that they remember only the photographs. This remembering through photographs eclipses other forms of understanding—and remembering.”

  2002-12-02