Photographs are a way of imprisoning reality... One can't possess reality, one can possess images--one can't possess the present but one can possess the past. (Susan Sontag)

Photographs are a way of imprisoning reality... One can't possess reality, one can possess images--one can't possess the present but one can possess the past.

Susan Sontag

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