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Travel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs.

Travel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs.

Susan Sontag
Inspirational, Funny, Travel
Susan Sontag (2011). “On Photography”, p.11, Macmillan

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. Travel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs.

Susan Sontag
Photography, Travel, Experience
Susan Sontag (2011). “On Photography”, p.11, Macmillan

People robbed of their past seem to make the most fervent picture takers, at home and abroad.

Susan Sontag
Photography, Travel, Home
Susan Sontag (2011). “On Photography”, p.11, Macmillan

Using a camera appeases the anxiety which the work-driven feel about not working when they are on vacation and supposed to be having fun. They have something to do that is like a friendly imitation of work: they can take pictures.

Susan Sontag
Travel, Fun, Vacation
Susan Sontag (2011). “On Photography”, p.11, Macmillan

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