Susan Sontag

[k.hendrik]

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[Ken Nadvornick]

Why do you want to be remebered?

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[RobC]

not a subscriber so can't see images.

 

[Ken Nadvornick]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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

 

[blansky]

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.

 

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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]

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

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

 

[cliveh]

Nonsense can often promote great creative thoughts.

 

[frank]

Nonsense can often promote great creative thoughts.

Let's run with that!

 

[Bill Burk]

Nonsense can often promote great creative thoughts.

I'm with frank on this one...

 

[blansky]

Let's run with that!

With scissors.

 

[frank]

Thumbs up.

 

[Pioneer]

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]

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]

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

 

[Dali]

Susan Sontag - 1, APUG - 0.

 

[fotofem]

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