Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/10/09
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]>>>> What, precisely, is objectionable about this passage? Chandos At 08:17 AM 9/8/2000 -0500, you wrote: > > In America the photographer is not simply the person who records the past, but the one who invents it. > > > Susan Sontag Chandos Michael Brown Assoc. Prof., History and American Studies College of William and Mary <<<<< I don't find it particularly objectionable either. No facts without interpretations, or some such. And if pictures really are the (or one of the) primary event-fixing medium in the popular consciousness, then it makes sense to me that the selectivity of what gets pictured very much determines what the past is. This also applies to our mental picture of "exotic" cultures, etc. (Depictions of the Arab world or India, China, etc.). While I don't find art theory very interesting, I thought Sontag's book was a good read at the time. Rob. Robert Appleby V. Bellentani 36 41100 MO Italy tel. (+39) 059 303436 mob. (+39) 0348 336 7990