Images anesthetize. An event known through photographs certainly becomes more real than it would have been if one had never seen the photographs.... But after repeated exposure to images it also becomes less real.... 'concerned' photography has done at least as much to deaden conscience as to arouse it.


On Photography (1977)

Susan Sontag Quotes

Images anesthetize. An event known through photographs certainly becomes more real than it would have been if one had never seen the photographs.......

Images anesthetize. An event known through photographs certainly becomes more real than it would have been if one had never seen the photographs.......

Images anesthetize. An event known through photographs certainly becomes more real than it would have been if one had never seen the photographs.......

Images anesthetize. An event known through photographs certainly becomes more real than it would have been if one had never seen the photographs.......