So successful has been the camera's role in beautifying the world that photographs, rather than the world, have become the standard of the beautiful. (Susan Sontag)

So successful has been the camera's role in beautifying the world that photographs, rather than the world, have become the standard of the beautiful.

Susan Sontag

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