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Susan Sontag’s “On Photography” is a mind-expanding read on this. She traces the history of photography and how it changed people. Suddenly with portable camer
by tyre 5y ago
Susan Sontag’s “On Photography” is a mind-expanding read on this.
She traces the history of photography and how it changed people. Suddenly with portable cameras, vacations became more about taking photos, which meant prioritizing places that looked good in photographs. It also meant thinking about and prioritizing being photographed.
Some of the essays are basically about Instagram and its effects on society…she just happened to have written them in the 1970s.
- JumpCrisscross 5y agoThis is a dead thread; I assume nobody but you will see this. Though that might dilute what I’m about to say, given this is a public forum, I still wanted to say, emphatically, thank you. I bought a copy of Sontag’s On Photography on the back of your comment. It is one of the more worldview-changing books I have read in a long time.