Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/09/13
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]More from Sontag, regarding Arbus and others who "volunteer to seek out the pain of others," .."not to feel more but to feel less." "Much of modern art is devoted to lowering the threshold of what is terrible.." "But our ability to stomach this rising grotesqueness in images...has a stiff price. In the long run, it works out not as liberation of but as a subtraction from the self: a pseudo-familiarity with the horrible reinforces alienation , making us less able to react in real life." Arthur