Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/09/26
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I hope you're snipping a lot of context, Arthur, because if these quotes accurately reflect Ms. Sontag's impressions of the art, I truly despair. In fact I find the thoughts you have quoted to be facile, dismissive and contemptuous. If they really reflect her outlook, I may in fact never read the whole book, because my blood pressure wouldn't take it. Just these bits are more enraging than a week-long thread on watches. If this stuff showed up on a usenet newsgroup, I'd call the post a troll. Paul >-----Original Message----- >From: ARTHURWG@aol.com [mailto:ARTHURWG@aol.com] >Sent: Tuesday, September 26, 2000 3:26 PM >To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us >Subject: Re: [Leica] Suzy Q, again > > >"There is an agression implicit in every use of the Camera." > >"Recently, photography has become almost as widely practiced >an amusement as >sex and dancing..." > >"A way of certifying experience, taking photographs is also a >way of refusing >it-- by limiting experience to a search for the photogenic, by >converting >experience into an image, a souvenir." > >"it would not be wrong to speak of people having a ' compulsion' to >photograph: to turn experience itself into a way of seeing." > >"Needing to have reality confirmed and experienced enhanced by >photographs is >an aesthetic consumerism to which everyone is now adicted." > > >--Susan Sontag >Arthur >