Like. ... — Susan Sontag For, as photography was entering the scene, painting was already, on its own, beginning its long retreat from realistic representation – Turner was born in 1775, Fox Talbot in 1800 – and the territory photography came to occupy with such rapid and complete success would probably have been depopulated anyway‘. 55). 149). This is the theme stated so eloquently in the finest essay ever written in praise of photography, Paul Rosenfeld’s chapter on Stieglitz in Port of New York. It is inevitable that more and more art will be designed to end as photographs. There are some very pithy quotes which to be considered, and over time I have been collecting these. Needing to have reality confirmed and experience enhanced by photographs is an aesthetic consumerism to which everyone is now addicted‘. 131).’For the line between amateur and professional, primitive and sophisticated is not just harder to draw with photography than it is with painting – it has little meaning‘. 52). ‘Photographed images do not seem to be statements about the world so much as pieces of it, miniatures of reality that anyone can make or acquire‘. It is not a defect that we are not seared, that we do not suffer, “A capitalist society requires a culture based on images. People who are bizarre, in sexual disgrace, emotionally vacant are seen daily on the newsstands, on TV, in the subways. More Susan Sontag Quotes. 1977. Susan Sontag’s fame was always paradoxical. It is unlikey that Warhol, who comes from a working-class family, ever felt any ambivalence toward success which afflicted the children of the Jewish upper middle classes in the 1960s. 162). 63). A touch of the finger now suffices to invest a moment with posthumous irony‘. I hope they inspire you. ‘The freedom to consume a plurality of images and goods is equated with freedom itself‘. Susan Sontag's On Photography Chapter Summary. ‘The most striking aspect of Arbus’s work is that she seems to have enrolled in one of art photography’s most vigorous enterprises concentrating on victims, on the unfortunate, but without the compassionate purpose that such a project is expected to serve. ‘Speed is at the bottom of it all’, as Hart Crane said (writing about Stieglitz in 1923), ‘the hundredth of a second caught so precisely that the motion is continued from the picture indefinitely: the moment made eternal’. Faced with the awesome spread and alienness of a newly settled continent, people wielded cameras as a way of taking possession of the places they visited. (pg. (pg. 53). Thus, they trade simultaneously on the prestige of art and the magic of the real. (pg. […] “On Photography” by Susan Sontag, because it was so influential in making people think about photographs. 68). mickyates April 10, 2019 ContextualResearch, Critical Research Journal, Critical Theory, Documentary, ICWeek11, Ideas, Informing Contexts, Media Theory, Photography, Portrait, Quotes Leave a Comment. ― Susan Sontag, On Photography. An example of photography-as-science is the project August Sander began in 1911‘. (pg. It needs to furnish vast amounts of entertainment in order to stimulate buying and anesthetize the injuries of class, race, and sex. See more ideas about susan sontag, susan, writer. (pg. There is probably no subject that cannot be beautified; moreover, there is no way to suppress the tendency inherent in all photographs to accord value to their subjects‘. 64). Like. Although much of Arbus's material is the same as that depicted in, say, Warhol's, “Time eventually positions most photographs, even the most amateurish, at the level of art.”, “As objects of contemplation, images of the atrocious can answer to several different needs. Quite frankly, I am not a fan of Susan Sontag. I applaud the fact that they ‘take a view’, rather than sitting on the sidelines. Like language, it is a medium in which works of art (among other things) are made‘. ‘J. The sublimity of color in Hodgkin's pictures can be thought of as, first of all, expressive of gratitude for the world that resists and survives the ego and its discontents. Compared with Warhol, Arbus seems strikingly vulnerable, innocent--and certainly more pessimistic. Part of an accredited education programme Sontag discusses many examples of modern photography. 8). Terms and conditions are here. 63). All that said, there are many nuggets of wisdom, and, to follow my own logic, I need to both be cognisant of these views, and be prepared to counter the ones I do not agree with. And, being hidden, is something to be unveiled‘. According to one attitude, there is nothing that should not be seen; according to the other, there is nothing that should not be recorded‘. The media are essentially contentless (this is the truth behind Marshall McLuhan’s celebrated remark about the message being the medium itself); their characteristic tone is ironic, or dead-pan, or parodistic. New York: Anchor Books. ‘Photography in Europe was largely guided by notions of the picturesque (i.e., the poor, the foreign, the time-worn), the important (i.e., the rich, the famous), and the beautiful. And it needs to gather unlimited amounts of information, the better to exploit natural resources, increase productivity, keep order, make war, give jobs to bureaucrats. (pg. ‘As if to refute the fact that many superb pictures are by photographers devoid of any serious or interesting intentions, the insistence that picture-taking is first of all the focusing of a temperament, only secondarily of a machine, has always been one of the main themes of the defense of photography. (pg. precisely by slicing out this moment and freezing it, all photographs testify to time's relentless melt.”, “The photographer is an armed version of the solitary walker reconnoitering, stalking, cruising the urban inferno, the voyeuristic stroller who discovers the city as a landscape of voluptuous extremes. 165). For more than a century, photographers have been hovering about the oppressed, in attendance at scenes of violence with a spectacularly good conscience. 173). 57). 4 Sustainable Prospects 115). Cameras define reality in the two ways essential to the workings of an advanced industrial society: as a spectacle (for masses) and as an object of surveillance (for rulers). Quotations by Susan Sontag, American Author, Born January 16, 1933. It is mainly a social rite, a defense against anxiety, and a tool of power‘. Our very sense of situation is now articulated by the camera’s interventions‘. Images transfix. Nevertheless, Sontag’s radical thoughts on photography are as potent as ever. (pg. ', 'I haven't been everywhere, but it's on my list. 173). 148). ‘In China, where no space is left over from politics and moralism for expressions of aesthetic sensibility, only some things are to be photographed and only in certain ways’. Unsure of other responses, they take a picture. Susan Sontag Quotes A collection of thoughts and quotes by Susan Sontag media, culture, AIDS, photography, ideology, human-rights, illness, intelligence and activist. 1970) world. Not waiting for inspiration's shove or society's kiss on your forehead. Insofar as photography is (or should be) about the world, the photographer counts for little, but insofar as it is the instrument of intrepid, questing subjectivity, the photographer is all‘. 21). 28). Susan Sontag. 147). (pg. 22). ‘A photograph is not just the result of an encounter between an event and a photographer; picture-taking is an event in itself, and one with ever more peremptory rights – to interfere with, to invade, or to ignore whatever is going on. (pg. ‘The further back we go in history, as E. H. Gombrich has observed, the less sharp is the distinction between images and real things; in primitive societies, the thing and its image were simply two different, that is, physically distinct, manifestations of the same energy or spirit‘. 100). On Photography began with a single essay in which Susan Sontag wanted to explore some of the problems, both aesthetic and moral, presented by the omnipresence of photographed images in … tags: photography. (pg. ‘… photograph is not only an image (as a painting is an image), an interpretation of the real; it is also a trace, something directly stenciled off the real, like a footprint or a death mask‘. Find summaries for every chapter, including a On Photography Chapter Summary Chart to help you understand the book. (pg 55). To photograph people is to violate them, by seeing them as they never see themselves, by having knowledge of them they can never have; it turns people into objects that can be symbolically possessed‘. Susan Sontag (/ ˈ s ɒ n t æ ɡ /; January 16, 1933 – December 28, 2004) was an American writer, filmmaker, philosopher, teacher, and political activist. Susan Sontag was born in New York City on January 16, 1933. ‘As John Szarkowski observes, ‘a skillful photographer can photograph anything well‘. Now nature - tamed, endangered, mortal - needs to be protected from people. P&P Work in Progress, S&S Oral Presentation (pg. (pg. ‘Between the defense of photography as a superior means of self-expression and the praise of photography as a superior way of putting the self at reality’s service there is not as much difference as might appear. Vroman’s handsome photographs are unexpressive, uncondescending, unsentimental. ', and 'Do stuff. (pg. Social change is replaced by a change in images. …………………………….. Header: Jill Krementz. Falmouth MA Top Posts 91). ‘And no reality is exempt from appropriation, neither one that is scandalous (and should be corrected) nor one that is merely beautiful (or could be made so by the camera). I find her work lacking in academic rigour, and very prone to deeply personal judgment – in fact, she and Roland Barthes have much in common on these two counts. ‘For Lange every portrait of another person is a ‘self-portrait’ of the photographer, as for Minor White – promoting ‘self-discovery through a camera’ – landscape photographs are really ‘inner landscapes‘. Like a wood fire in a room, photographs - especially those of people, of distant landscapes and faraway cities, of the vanished past - are incitements to reverie. Share with your friends. “Photography makes us feel that the world is more available than it really is.” 1. FMP Critical Review 154). The photograph is not, even ostensibly, meant to lead us back to an original experience‘. Books of photography pile higher and higher – measuring the lost past (hence, the promotion of amateur photography), taking the temperature of the present. “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.”. ‘It cannot be a coincidence that just about the time that photographers stopped discussing whether photography is an art, it was acclaimed as one by the general public and photography entered, in force, into the museum‘. One does so by universalizing the human condition, into joy; the other by atomizing it, into horror‘. (pg. Born in 1933, Sontag wrote plays, essays, and fiction until her death in 2004. 78). That approach would of course be fine if their work was not held up as two of the great canons in the photographic literature. 6). It is a set of essays on the "philosophy" of picture-taking and the meaning of photography in the modern (ca. 51 Copy quote. SONTAG, Susan. The production of images also furnishes a ruling ideology. ‘The immensely gifted members of the Farm Security Administration photographic project of the late 1930s (among them Walker Evans, Dorothea Lange, Ben Shahn, Russell Lee) would take dozens of frontal pictures of one of their sharecropper subjects until satisfied that they had gotten just the right look on film—the precise expression on the subject’s face that supported their own notions about poverty, light, dignity, texture, exploitation, and geometry. 51). 12). (pg. Thereby, it implicitly defined its point of view: that of middle-class people who needed to be convinced that the poor were really poor, and that the poor were dignified’. Their mood is the very opposite of the FSA photographs: they are not moving, they are not idiomatic, they do not invite sympathy‘. It can also corrupt them. - Susan Sontag. Ideally, the photographer was able to make the two realities cognate, as illustrated by the title of an interview with Hine in 1920, Treating Labor Artistically‘. The scientists make an inventory of the world; the moralists concentrate on hard cases. ”, “But the very question of whether photography is or is not an art is essentially a misleading one. Even though Sontag later refuted many of her own ideas, the remains influential. ‘American photography was rarely so detached‘. The ultimate wisdom of the photographic image is to say, 'There is the surface. The purpose of the project was to demonstrate the value of the people photographed. Photographs tended to praise or to aim at neutrality‘. Susan Sontag’s On Photography, “In Plato’s Cave” Summary | Nude Answers 2016 In-text: (Susan Sontag’s On Photography, “In Plato’s Cave” Summary | Nude Answers, 2016) 167). “Photographs are a way of imprisoning reality... One can't possess reality, one can possess images- … ‘As Berenice Abbott writes: ‘The photographer is the contemporary being par excellence; through his eyes the now becomes past’. !function(d,s,id){var js,fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0],p=/^http:/.test(d.location)? (pg. 33). (pg. Although the activities of some photographers conform to the traditional notion of a fine art, the activity of exceptionally talented individuals producing discrete objects that have value in themselves, form the beginning photography has also lent itself to that notion of art which says that art is obsolete. Unless otherwise and specifically stated on the post, all items created by Mick Yates are licensed under the Creative Commons License scheme (requiring Attribution – Non Commercial – No Derivative Works – 3.0 Unported) and may be redistributed according to that license. 159). 90). ‘Photographs make normative an experience of art that is mediated, second-hand, intense in a different way‘. ‘The pious uplift of Steichen’s photograph anthology and the cool dejection of the Arbus retrospective both render history and politics irrelevant. 409 likes. Quite frankly, I am not a fan of Susan Sontag. (pg. 67). ‘Photography reinforces a nominalist view of social reality as consisting of small units of an apparently infinite number …‘. They are clouds of fantasy and pellets of information‘. (pg. But, in taking those views, they both seem to disregard (or at minimum not logically argue against) other possible views. Project Development, 1 Positions & Practice ‘… like every mass art form, photography is not practiced by most people as an art. Susan Sontag — 1964 In The Evergreen Review, Dec. ... to give more accurate reports on reality (including works of art). (pg. 178). 33). The power of photography --and its centrality in present aesthetic concerns-- is that it confirms both ideas of art. Susan Sontag (1978). 173). ‘Photography, which has so many narcissistic uses, is also a powerful instrument for depersonalizing our relation to the world‘. 17). The photographer is an armed version of the solitary walker reconnoitering, stalking, cruising the urban inferno, the voyeuristic stroller who discovers the city as a landscape of voluptuous extremes. ‘By taking over the task of realistic picturing hitherto monopolized by painting, photography freed painting for its great modernist vocationist abstraction. ‘In principle, photography executes the Surrealist mandate to adopt an uncompromisingly egalitarian attitude toward subject matter. 557 likes. 5 Final Major Project, IC Critical Review 122). ‘For Moholy-Nagy the genius of photography lies in its ability to render ‘an objective portrait: the individual to be photographed so that the photographic result shall not be encumbered with subjective intention‘. 63). ‘Jack Kerouac begins his introduction to Robert Frank’s book The Americans: That crazy feeling in America when the sun is hot on the streets and music comes out of the jukebox or from a nearby funeral, that’s what Robert Frank has captured in these tremendous photographs taken as he travelled on the road around practically forty-eight states in an old used car (on Guggenheim Fellowship) and with the agility, mystery, genius, sadness and strange secrecy of a shadow photographed scenes that have never been seen on film … After seeing these pictures you end up finally not knowing any more whether a jukebox is sadder than a coffin‘. Adept of the joys of watching, connoisseur of empathy, the flaneur finds the world ‘picturesque’. The findings of Baudelaire’s flaneur are variously exemplified by the candid snapshots taken in the 1890s by Paul Martin in London streets and at the seaside and by Arnold Genthe in San Francisco’s Chinatown (both using a concealed camera), by Atget’s twilight Paris of shabby streets and decaying trades, by the dramas of sex and loneliness depicted in Brassai’s book Paris de nuit (1933), by the image of the city as a theater of disaster in Weegee’s Naked City (1945). (pg. ‘To photograph is to confer importance. ‘Two attitudes underlie this presumption that anything in the world is material for the camera. 92). (pg. Cameras define reality in the two ways essential to the workings of an advanced industrial society: as a spectacle (for masses) and as an object of surveillance (for rulers)‘. 3 Surfaces & Strategies 54). But photography’s impact on painting was not as clear-cut as that. Any collection of photographs is an exercise in Surrealist montage and the Surrealist abbreviation of history‘. The freedom to consume a plurality of images and goods is equated with freedom itself. (pg 119). The book assembles six essays originally published between 1973 and 1977 in the New York Review of Books. And it needs to gather unlimited amounts of information, the better to exploit natural resources, increase productivity, keep order, make war, give jobs to bureaucrats. 'http':'https';if(!d.getElementById(id)){js=d.createElement(s);js.id=id;js.src=p+"://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js";fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs);}}(document,"script","twitter-wjs"); All images and posts created by Mick Yates are copyrighted. (pg. Her work shows people who are pathetic, pitiable, as well as repulsive, but it does not arouse any compassionate feelings‘. 122). Oct 3, 2018 - Susan Sontag quotes, tattoos, photos, books, and products. (pg. But the way in which photography renders art obsolete is, in the long run, stronger.”, “A photograph is both a pseudo-presence and a token of absence. (pg. Falmouth MA Research, Coursework (pg. Just a moment while we sign you in to your Goodreads account. I read a few articles about photography and finally, Susan Sontag’s superb essays On Photography. ‘For Baudelaire, photography was painting’s ‘mortal enemy’; but eventually a truce was worked out, according to which photography was held to be painting’s liberator‘. Aug 31, 2017 - Explore Nargess Behrouzian's board "Susan sontag" on Pinterest. I have thus decided to put them all in one place, for future reference. Time eventually positions most photographs, even the most amateurish, at the level of art‘. (pg. 118). “Today everything exists to end in a photograph.”. (pg. (pg. To take a photograph is to participate in another person’s (or thing’s) mortality, vulnerability, mutability. ‘The FSA project, conceived as ‘pictorial documentation of our rural areas and rural problems’ (Stryker’s words), was unabashedly propagandistic, with Stryker coaching his team about the attitude they were to take toward their problem subject. (pg. The flâneur is not attracted to the city’s official realities but to its dark seamy corners, its neglected populations, an unofficial reality behind the facade of bourgeois‘. Out of photography, one can make passport pictures, weather photographs, pornographic pictures, X-rays, wedding pictures, and Atget's Paris. 178). Time, Moments, Photograph. Capitalist society requires a culture based on images. ‘But essentially the camera makes everyone a tourist in other people’s reality, and eventually in one’s own‘. “On Photographyis to my mind the most original and illuminating study of the subject.”—Calvin Trillin, The New Yorker. (pg. IC Oral Presentation ‘Photography is the inventory of mortality. The camera’s twin capacities, to subjectivize reality and to objectify it, ideally serve these needs and strengthen them. A modernist would have to rewrite Pater’s dictum that all art aspires to the condition of music. (pg. This is still the aim of most amateur photographers, for whom a beautiful photograph is a photograph of … Her Dantesque vision of the city (and the suburbs) has no reserves of irony. Once one has seen such images, one has started down the road of seeing more - and more. S&S Work in Progress, FMP Pecha Kucha ‘Surrealism is the art of generalizing the grotesque and then discovering nuances (and charms) in that. (pg. (pg 6). (pg. Susan Sontag — "Photographic Evangels", p. 147 (pg. America, Seen Through Photographs, Darkly. 69). (pg. Photography is a great hobby. Photography is not an art like, say, painting and poetry. When we are afraid, we shoot. Anyone interested in the social roles of photography will find this book fascinating and thought-provoking. As usual, when I am thinking of pursuing something, I turn to books. ‘Photography has the unappealing reputation of being the most realistic, therefore facile, of the mimetic arts. The camera's twin capacities, to subjectivise reality and to objectify it, ideally serve these needs as strengthen them. ‘Alfred Stieglitz proudly reports that he had stood three hours during a blizzard on February 22, 1893, ‘awaiting the proper moment’ to take his celebrated picture, ‘Fifth Avenue, Winter‘. (pg. Precisely by slicing out this moment and freezing it, all photographs testify to time's relentless melt. In her preface, Sontag clarifies that it "all began with one essay": the following book bounces of the springboard of an idea that began with a simple consideration as to … Hobbesian man roams the streets, quite visible, with glitter in his hair.”. Reviewing Susan Sontag's book is analogous to printing in the darkroom. Images anesthetize.”. Industrial societies turn their citizens into image-junkies; it is the most irresistible form of mental pollution.”, “to take a photograph is to participate in another person's mortality, vulnerability, mutability. Photographs furnish instant history, instant sociology, instant participation‘. Social misery has inspired the comfortably-off with the urge to take pictures, the gentlest of predations, in order to document a hidden reality, that is, a reality hidden from them, The flâneur is not attracted to the city’s official realities but to its dark seamy corners, its neglected populations, an unofficial reality behind the facade of bourgeois, The FSA project, conceived as ‘pictorial documentation of our rural areas and rural problems’ (Stryker’s words), was unabashedly propagandistic. 2 Informing Contexts — "About Hodgkin," from Howard Hodgkin Paintings (1995), p. 109. ‘The view of reality as an exotic prize to be tracked down and captured by the diligent hunter-with-a-camera has informed photography from the beginning, and marks the confluence of the Surrealist counter-culture and middle-class social adventurism. Photography has always been fascinated by social heights and lower depths. 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