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America, Seen Through Photographs, Darkly
in this text Sontag drives you through a kind of history of american (and therefore occidental) aesthetics through the lens of photographic experience. going with the old Whitman who works after a generalization of beauty in order to go beyond beauty and ugliness, but whose revolutionary project is undoable, and therefore it will fall into the surrealist. From here Sontag
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in this text Sontag drives you through a kind of history of american (and therefore occidental) aesthetics through the lens of photographic experience. going with the old Whitman who works after a generalization of beauty in order to go beyond beauty and ugliness, but whose revolutionary project is undoable, and therefore it will fall into the surrealist. From here Sontag
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- the notion that is with looking at & the right we have to observe
- voyeuristic
- non-intervention, war; choice between photograph & life (sacrifice/detachment)
- violation
- more memorable than moving images; a slice of time
- anaesthetise
- consumeristic
'participating in another's mortality, an object to time's relentless melt'
'democratise all experiences by translating them into images'
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- the notion that is with looking at & the right we have to observe
- voyeuristic
- non-intervention, war; choice between photograph & life (sacrifice/detachment)
- violation
- more memorable than moving images; a slice of time
- anaesthetise
- consumeristic
'participating in another's mortality, an object to time's relentless melt'
'democratise all experiences by translating them into images'
