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سوزان سونتاغ
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روائية ومخرجة وناشطة سياسية أمريكية.
سوزان سونتاج (16 يناير 1933 - 28 ديسمبر 2004) ناقدة ومخرجة وروائية أميركية، من أعمالها الروائية "Against interpretation" عام 1966 و"The benefactor" عام 1963 و"styles of radical will" عام 1969، ومن أفلامها كمخرجة "Brother carl" عام 1974.
My love wants to incorporate her totally to eat her My love is selfish
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My emotional life dialectic between craving for privacy and need to submerge myself in a passionate relationship to another With him I have neither neither privacy or passion Neither the heightening of self which is won by privacy and loneliness nor the splendid heroic beautiful loss of self that accompanies passion
Image of an image of an image But to record all the dips and upswings in a sense falsifies them and I start deluding myself and thinking all this is or might be real Enough to play the game or try to play it A mistake to tally up the score
I am not myself with people but am I myself when alone That seems unlikely too
If there can be a better way for the real world to include the one of images it will require an ecology not only of real things but of images as well
When Cartier Bresson goes to China he shows that there are people in China and that they are Chinese
Photographs cannot create a moral position but they can reinforce one and can help build a nascent one
Una fotografía es a la vez una pseudopresencia y un signo de ausencia
Photographs shock insofar as they show something novel
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
Cameras miniaturize experience transform history into spectacle
To collect photographs is to collect the world
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حين ينتابنا الخوف , نطلق الرصاص ,
لكن حين ينتابنا الحنين نطلق الصور
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ثمة عدوانية كامنة في كل أستخدام للكاميرا
To photograph is to appropriate the thing photographed
A way of certifying experience taking photographs is also a way of refusing it—by limiting experience to a search for the photogenic by converting experience into an image a souvenir Travel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs
Desire has no history
To suffer is one thing another thing is living with the photographed images of suffering which does not necessarily strengthen conscience and the ability to be compassionate It can also corrupt them Once one has seen such images one has started down the road of seeing more and more Images transfix Images anesthetize
Recientemente la fotografía se ha transformado en una diversión casi tan cultivada como el sexo y el baile lo cual significa que la fotografía como toda forma artística de masas no es cultivada como tal por la mayoría Es sobre todo un rito social una protección contra la ansiedad y un instrumento de poder
Despite the illusion of giving understanding what seeing through photographs really invites is an acquisitive relation to the world that nourishes aesthetic awareness and promotes emotional detachment
