SONTAG, SUSAN : Instead of just recording reality, photographs have become the norm for the way things appear to us, thereby changing the very idea of reality and of realism. (Susan Sontag, U.S. writer, filmmaker, philosopher, teacher, and political activist, 1933-2004)

SONTAG, SUSAN : The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people's reality, and eventually in one's own. (Susan Sontag, U.S. writer, filmmaker, philosopher, teacher, and political activist, 1933-2004)

SONTAG, SUSAN : Life is not about significant details, illuminated in a flash, fixed forever. Photographs are. (Susan Sontag, U.S. writer, filmmaker, philosopher, teacher, and political activist, 1933-2004)