felt something morally wrong abstract reality offered photography; one — Susan Sontag, Regarding Pain Others

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It is felt that there is something morally wrong with the abstract of reality offered by photography; that one has no right to experience the suffering of others at a distance, denuded of its raw power; that we pay too high a human (or moral) price for those hitherto admired qualities of vision – the standing back from the aggressiveness of the world which frees us for observation and for elective attention.

Susan Sontag, Regarding the Pain of Others

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