#on photography

[soracities]

Susan Sontag, "In Plato's Cave", On Photography [transcript in ALT]

#q #quotes #susan sontag #on photography #notes on an art form #on culture #reading #typography #m #x

[diana-andraste]

Untitled daguerreotype, likely Bruno Braquehais, c. 1852

A little later a thousand hungry eyes were bending over the peep-holes of the stereoscope, as though they were the attic-windows of the infinite. The love of pornography, which is no less deep-rooted in the natural heart of man than the love of himself, was not to let slip so fine an opportunity of self-satisfaction. 

– Charles Baudelaire, On Photography, 1859

#photography #vintage #bruno braquehais #1850s #hair #charles baudelaire #on photography #essay #writing #art #french photography #daguerreotype #double image #hand tinted photography

[riverswater]

In Plato’s Cave, On Photography, Susan Sontag (x)

#pdf is linked #words #on photography #susan sontag #m

[thinkingimages]

#barthes #camera lucida #lit quotes #quotations #photography #on photography

[jem-in-eyee]

“Cameras began duplicating the world at that moment when the human landscape started to undergo a vertiginous rate of change: while an untold number of forms of biological and social life are being destroyed in a brief span of time, a device is available to record what is disappearing. The moody, intricately textured Paris of Atget and Brassaï is mostly gone. Like the dead relatives and friends preserved in the family album, whose presence in photographs exorcises some of the anxiety and remorse prompted by their disappearance, so the photographs of neighborhoods now torn down, rural places disfigured and made barren, supply our pocket relation to the past.”

“A photograph is both a pseudo-presence and a token of absence. Like a wood fire in a room, photographs- especially those of people, of distant landscapes and faraway cities, of the vanished past are incitements to reverie.”

—“On Photography”, by Susan Sontag

[before & after photographs of the old half broken house of a Migrant Sindhi Family that was positioned in the centre of my housing society. It was broken down a while ago. The first picture, (furthering Sontag’s understanding) depicts the ‘pseudo presence’ of the house & the second one is ‘a token of absence’.]

[1/n]

photograph of jamnaben jamariya’s house, after death.

[2/n]

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[waitinqroom]

on photography, susan sontag

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[ashtrayfloors]

A photograph's punctum is that accident which pricks me (but also bruises me, is poignant to me).

—Roland Barthes, from Camera Lucida

#quotations #roland barthes #on photography #punctum #camera lucida #currently reading

[booksaboutmurder]

"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."

Susan Sontag

#she's so right tho #susan sontag #philosophy #photography #on photography #dark academia

[celluloidwickerman]

Presence, or Polaroid Ghosts (Part 2)

Part 1 Histories Polaroids are shackled to nostalgia. Its aesthetic perfectly embodies the past tense, especially in the cold light of today’s digital world. The presence captured, however, makes even the oldest photos whisper of the living moment as it happened. As an object, they are driven by this contradiction. Being so close to our lives charges these images with supernatural static. But,…

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[beljar]

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.

Susan Sontag, from On Photography, 1973

#susan sontag #on photography #subjectivism #murder #photography art #literary text #world literature #quotes #books and libraries #dark acadamia aesthetic #classic literature #english literature

[soracities]

Susan Sontag, "In Plato's Cave", On Photography [transcript in ALT]

#q #quotes #susan sontag #on photography #notes on an art form #reading #typography #m #x

[riverswater]

On Photography, Susan Sontag (x)

#pdf is linked #on photography #susan sontag #words #memento mori #m

[paarijaata]

“This longing to inhabit, if I observe it clearly in myself, is neither oneiric (I do not dream of some extravagant site) nor emperical (I do not intend to buy a house according to the views of a real-estate agency); it is fantasmatic, deriving from a kind of second sight which seems to bear me forward to a utopian time, or to carry me back to somewhere in myself...”

Roland Barthes, Camera Lucida

#roland barthes #camera lucida #on photography #on home

[catmint1]

Photography is an art of observation.It has little to do with the things you see and everything to do with the way you see them.

Elliott Erwitt

#quotes #elliott erwitt #on photography #on art #on seeing #observation #text

[black-hole--sun]

nothing hits quite hard these days like this manga and its view of photography for a photographer like me 🖤

Snow Fairy (Yuki no Yousei), Tomo Serizawa

#on photography #snow fairy #manga #tomo serizawa #words #quotes #photography #relatable #resonace #yuki no yousei #narumi akihito

[gasolinehive]

— Fallen Angels, Wong Kar-Wai (1995)

#fallen angels #wong kar wai #frame stills #film #on photography