Re: [Leica] Suzy Q, again

[Austin Burbridge <Austin.Burbridge@Alumni.Brown.edu>]

What I appreciate about On Photography is that it is a useful 
compendium of received ideas, circa 1977. . . . I respect the 
activity, although I do think of them as received ideas

>"There is an agression implicit in every use of the Camera."
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>"Recently, photography has become almost as widely practiced an amusement as
>sex and dancing..."
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>"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."
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>"it would not be wrong to speak of people having a ' compulsion' to
>photograph: to turn experience itself into a way of seeing."
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>"Needing to have reality confirmed and experienced enhanced by photographs is
>an aesthetic consumerism to which everyone is now adicted."
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>                                                             --Susan Sontag
>Arthur