Susan Sontag

k.hendrik · May 22, 2015

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Ken Nadvornick · May 22, 2015

RobC said:
Why do you want to be remebered?

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RobC · May 22, 2015

not a subscriber so can't see images.

Ken Nadvornick · May 22, 2015

RobC said:
not a subscriber so can't see images.

Then sign up. It's only US$12/year. Which equals US$2/month. Which equals US 3.3 cents/day.

Best bargain in analog photography...

Ken

Pioneer · May 23, 2015

Ken Nadvornick said:
Then sign up. It's only US$12/year. Which equals US$2/month. Which equals US 3.3 cents/day.

Best bargain in analog photography...

Ken

+++1

with another few characters.

Vilk · May 23, 2015

eddie said:
I'm more in this camp. When I look at a photo I made 10, 20, 30 years ago, I don't usually recall the technical aspects (camera/exposure/film choice) but I do remember sensory things, like the smell of the ocean... a breeze which cooled my sunburned neck... the sounds of sea birds... For a brief time, I'm an immortal time traveler.

interesting, just last night, in toronto, sally mann described the exact opposite of this effect... photographs as memory killers... no smell, no breeze, no birds... no emotion... just a silly picture, a thing

i admit, i was listening with a small part of my brain only, busy editing the day's catch for flickr... but se non è vero, è ben trovato--most certainly, the quality of my memories is inversely proportional to the quality of my pictures (qua objets d'art)

ps. more on topic--and not in direct reply to the quoted poster--suzy rocks! what a smart, erudite, articulate--and wise--lady she was... i hope i get a chance to buy her a drink one day, on the other side... wake up, people! this thread must have the highest percentage of nonsense in all of apug

frank · May 23, 2015

Photographers usually take pictures because they can express themselves better visually than with words. When photographers speak or write words, many times they are just tying to create a buzz about their images. I take what photographers say or write, with a grain of salt.

(A reaction to photography being a memory killer.)

RobC · May 23, 2015

Watch the following.
It's an hour long so if you don't have time then, watch from 53:00 minutes to 55:30
See what one of the UKs very talented and well known photographers from the 60s has to say about art and photography.

https://vimeo.com/9141202

Vilk · May 23, 2015

frank said:
Photographers usually take pictures because they can express themselves better visually than with words. When photographers speak or write words, many times they are just tying to create a buzz about their images. I take what photographers say or write, with a grain of salt.

(A reaction to photography being a memory killer.)

yup. and then there are those with master's degrees in creative writing

eddie · May 23, 2015

Vilk said:
interesting, just last night, in toronto, sally mann described the exact opposite of this effect... photographs as memory killers... no smell, no breeze, no birds... no emotion... just a silly picture, a thing

I'm sure she's not alone in her belief. For me, however, it's different. Revisiting my old photos evoke things which aren't in the 2 dimensional piece of paper. I'm sure I'm not alone either.

frank · May 23, 2015

For sure! The photo isn't the (limited) memory, it is a memory jog.

blansky · May 24, 2015

Vilk said:
interesting, just last night, in toronto, sally mann described the exact opposite of this effect... photographs as memory killers... no smell, no breeze, no birds... no emotion... just a silly picture, a thing

Exact opposite for me.

But perhaps in her case, since she photographed her kids a lot, and now with her husbands illness, when she looks back on her pictures from that time, she remembers a time when she was a young mother, happier and more fulfilled and now the pictures are more melancholy memory, than her memories she manufactured of that time.

Not sure. But I've never heard anyone say that about photographs. Usually they bring back instant memories and transport people back to the time of the picture.

removed account4 · May 24, 2015

Vilk said:
interesting, just last night, in toronto, sally mann described the exact opposite of this effect... photographs as memory killers... no smell, no breeze, no birds... no emotion... just a silly picture, a thing

i admit, i was listening with a small part of my brain only, busy editing the day's catch for flickr... but se non è vero, è ben trovato--most certainly, the quality of my memories is inversely proportional to the quality of my pictures (qua objets d'art)

ps. more on topic--and not in direct reply to the quoted poster--suzy rocks! what a smart, erudite, articulate--and wise--lady she was... i hope i get a chance to buy her a drink one day, on the other side... wake up, people! this thread must have the highest percentage of nonsense in all of apug

she sure was !

and YES

David Brown · May 25, 2015

Vilk said:
this thread must have the highest percentage of nonsense in all of apug

You haven't been here near long enough ...

cliveh · May 25, 2015

Nonsense can often promote great creative thoughts.

frank · May 25, 2015

cliveh said:
Nonsense can often promote great creative thoughts.

Let's run with that!

Bill Burk · May 25, 2015

cliveh said:
Nonsense can often promote great creative thoughts.

I'm with frank on this one...

blansky · May 25, 2015

frank said:
Let's run with that!

With scissors.

frank · May 25, 2015

Thumbs up.

Pioneer · May 25, 2015

You guys go ahead and run. Evening is coming along, complete with rainstorm. I'm going out to get some photographs to remind me what the sage smelled like.

RalphLambrecht · Jun 18, 2015

Bill Burk said:
And I swear this is true...

I always had them mixed up. I thought Suzanne Somers wrote "On Photography". I always thought "wow a comedian and intelligent writer - what a combination"

You had to read it during the late 60s and early 70s.at that time we had enough dope to understand it

RobC · Jun 18, 2015

OMG you've ressurected this topic from the dead. Spooky.

Dali · Jul 18, 2015

Susan Sontag - 1, APUG - 0.

fotofem · Jul 18, 2015

Sontag was what I call a "POMO-head". She hated photography as far as I could tell.

Susan Sontag

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