What would any photography project be without mention of the famous or should I say infamous Susan Sontag's iconic photograph book On photography. Sontag's vicious opinions on photography are something I don't personally agree with she is always go for inspire a fight against her opinions . Below I have extracted some quotes from the first paragraph of her book alone . about the possession of photography and photographs ability to freeze time and moment which in my opinion a memory box also has the power to do . She says how to photograph somebody is to violate them , just imagine her thoughts and opinions on photographing them and them putting them in a private memory box ,she'd have a field day !
I actually like the way she says a photograph has the ability to imprison reality, memory boxes have the ability to preserve memory's , reality and time , light , space ect .
“To photograph people is to violate them, by seeing them as they never see themselves, by having knowledge of them that they can never have; it turns people into objects that can be symbolically possessed. Just as a camera is a sublimation of the gun, to photograph someone is a subliminal murder - a soft murder, appropriate to a sad, frightened time.”
“Photographs are a way of imprisoning reality...One can't possess reality, one can possess images--one can't possess the present but one can possess the past.”
“to take a photograph is to participate in another person's mortality, vulnerability, mutability. precisely by slicing out this moment and freezing it, all photographs testify to time's relentless melt.”
I actually like the way she says a photograph has the ability to imprison reality, memory boxes have the ability to preserve memory's , reality and time , light , space ect .
“To photograph people is to violate them, by seeing them as they never see themselves, by having knowledge of them that they can never have; it turns people into objects that can be symbolically possessed. Just as a camera is a sublimation of the gun, to photograph someone is a subliminal murder - a soft murder, appropriate to a sad, frightened time.”
“Photographs are a way of imprisoning reality...One can't possess reality, one can possess images--one can't possess the present but one can possess the past.”
“to take a photograph is to participate in another person's mortality, vulnerability, mutability. precisely by slicing out this moment and freezing it, all photographs testify to time's relentless melt.”
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