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Susan Sontag

“Ordinary language fixes the difference between handmade images like Goya's and photographs by the convention that artists "make" drawings and paintings while photographers "take" photographs. 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 someone chose; to photograph is to frame, and to frame is to exclude.”

Susan Sontag, Regarding the Pain of Others
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Regarding the Pain of Others Regarding the Pain of Others by Susan Sontag
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