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It neither uplifts nor degrade photography, but it gives this sense of entitlement in both of its purpose and sense, good or bad, in the past, present, and future to come -- the world as image, and us, turning the experience into an image itself.
I like the idea that even though it was published in the 70's, most of Sontag's observation regarding the consumerist and violent process of photography (the invasion of someone's privacy, catching the subject in their most unguarded moments without permission) is resonant of what we have in this day, decades after.
There are a lot of good points for discussion in her essays, and as always, it's engaging.
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Despite some of the author’s predictions about the future of photography being wide of the mark, the majority of the discussion still holds up well almost 50 years later.
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I do feel like this book wasn't quite beginner friendly. More often than not I found myself wondering about figures like Cartier-Bresson, Atget, Agnes... this is ultimately a collection of essays, but it gets a tad difficult to visualize because despite it talking about photos there are none
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