Wednesday 29 May 2019

An aesthetic consumerism to which everyone is now addicted

“Needing to have reality confirmed and experience enhanced by photographs is an aesthetic consumerism to which everyone is now addicted. Industrial societies turn their citizens into image-junkies; it is the most irresistible form of mental pollution.”

Susan Sontag 1977

https://youtu.be/8gdJiNqP35k

It is worth dwelling on the date of the Susan Sontag quote. This was long before the digital age.

What should the response of a "serious" photographer be?