Needing to have reality confirmed and experience enhanced by photographs is an aesthetic consumerism to which everyone i — it is the most irresistible form of mental pollution.
Needing to have reality confirmed and experience enhanced by photographs is an aesthetic consumerism to which everyone i — it is the most irresistible form of mental pollution.
Needing to have reality confirmed and experience enhanced by photographs is an aesthetic consumerism to which everyone i — it is the most irresistible form of mental pollution.
Needing to have reality confirmed and experience enhanced by photographs is an aesthetic consumerism to which everyone i — it is the most irresistible form of mental pollution.
Needing to have reality confirmed and experience enhanced by photographs is an aesthetic consumerism to which everyone i — it is the most irresistible form of mental pollution.
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Needing to have reality confirmed and experience enhanced by photographs is an aesthetic consumerism to which everyone is now addicted. Industrial societies turn their citizens into image-junkies

— it is the most irresistible form of mental pollution.
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Is there an antidote to the perennial seductiveness of war? And is this a question a woman is more likely to pose than a — Susan Sontag, Regarding the Pain of Others
Narratives can make us understand. Photographs do something else: they haunt us. — Susan Sontag, Regarding the Pain of Others
Photographs objectify: they turn an event or a person into something that can be possessed. — Susan Sontag, Regarding the Pain of Others
No "we" should be taken for granted when the subject is looking at other people's pain. — Susan Sontag, Regarding the Pain of Others
It is intolerable to have one's sufferings twinned with anybody else's. — Susan Sontag, Regarding the Pain of Others
We" - this "we" is everyone who has never experienced anything like what they went through - don't understand. We don't — Susan Sontag, Regarding the Pain of Others
Up to a point, the weight and seriousness of such photographs survive better in a book, where one can look privately, li — Susan Sontag, Regarding the Pain of Others
It is felt that there is something morally wrong with the abstract of reality offered by photography; that one has no ri — Susan Sontag, Regarding the Pain of Others
Perhaps too much value is assigned to memory, not enough to thinking. Remembering is an ethical act, has ethical value i — Susan Sontag, Regarding the Pain of Others
To set their sufferings alongside the sufferings of another people was to compare them (which hell was worse?), demoting — Susan Sontag, Regarding the Pain of Others
Compassion is an unstable emotion. It needs to be translated into action, or it withers. — Susan Sontag, Regarding the Pain of Others
It is a view of suffering, of the pain of others, that is rooted in religious thinking, which links pain to sacrifice, s — Susan Sontag, Regarding the Pain of Others