The Document
'Still there is something predatory in the act of taking a picture. To photograph people is to violate them, by seeing them as they see themselves, by having knowledge of them as they can never be; it turns people into objects that can be symbolically possessed. just as the camera is a sublimation of the gun, to photography someone is a sublimated murder-a soft murder, appropriate to a sad, frightened time' [Sontag, 1979:15]
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