Quote by Susan Sontag
To take a photograph is to participate in another persons mortalit

To take a photograph is to participate in another persons mortality, vulnerability, mutability. Precisely by slicing out this moment and freezing it, all photographs testify to times relentless melt. – Susan Sontag

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