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Any photograph has multiple meanings: indeed, to see something in the form of a photograph is to encounter a potential object of fascination. the ultimate wisdom of the photographic image is to say: “there is the surface. now think – or rather feel, intuit – what is beyond it, what the reality must be like if it looks this way.’ photographs, which cannot themselves explain anything, are inexhaustible invitations to deduction, speculation, and fantasy
-Susan Sontag
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Any Photograph Has Multiple Meanings: Indeed, To

Susan Sontag
Any photograph has multiple meanings: indeed, to see something in the form of a photograph is to encounter a potential object of fascination. the ultimate wisdom of the photographic image is to say: “there is the surface. now think – or rather feel, intuit – what is beyond it, what the reality must be like if it looks this way.’ photographs, which cannot themselves explain anything, are inexhaustible invitations to deduction, speculation, and fantasy
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