Susan Sontag Quotes About Guns

Quotes about: Guns

• 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

  Gun, People, Cameras

  Susan Sontag (2011). “On Photography”, p.16, Macmillan

• Guns have metamorphosed into cameras in this earnest comedy, the ecology safari, because nature has ceased to be what it always had been - what people needed protection from. Now nature tamed, endangered, mortal - needs to be protected from people.

  Susan Sontag

  Nature, Gun, People

  Susan Sontag (2011). “On Photography”, p.16, Macmillan

• 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

  Gun, Cameras, Murder

  "On Photography". Book by Susan Sontag, www.elle.com. 1977.

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