It is not altogether wrong to say that there is no such thing as a bad photograph - only less interesting, less relevant, less mysterious ones.

Quote by Susan Sontag

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What pornography is really about, ultimately, isn't sex but death.

What pornography is really about, ultimately, isn't sex but death.

Silence remains, inescapably, a form of speech.

Silence remains, inescapably, a form of speech.

I do not think white America is committed to granting equality to the American Negro....

I do not think white America is committed to granting equality to the American Negro....

What pornographic literature does is precisely to drive a wedge between one's existence as a...

What pornographic literature does is precisely to drive a wedge between one's existence as a...

The taste for quotations (and for the juxtaposition of incongruous quotations) is a Surrealist taste.

The taste for quotations (and for the juxtaposition of incongruous quotations) is a Surrealist taste.

Depression is melancholy minus its charms - the animation, the fits.

Depression is melancholy minus its charms - the animation, the fits.

Tamed as it may be, sexuality remains one of the demonic forces in human consciousness...

Tamed as it may be, sexuality remains one of the demonic forces in human consciousness...

AIDS obliges people to think of sex as having, possibly, the direst consequences: suicide. Or...

AIDS obliges people to think of sex as having, possibly, the direst consequences: suicide. Or...

The writer is either a practicing recluse or a delinquent, guilt-ridden one; or both. Usually...

The writer is either a practicing recluse or a delinquent, guilt-ridden one; or both. Usually...

Societies need to have one illness which becomes identified with evil, and attaches blame to...

Societies need to have one illness which becomes identified with evil, and attaches blame to...

Travel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs.

Travel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs.

I don't want to express alienation. It isn't what I feel. I'm interested in various...

I don't want to express alienation. It isn't what I feel. I'm interested in various...

It seems positively unnatural to travel without taking a camera along... The very activity of...

It seems positively unnatural to travel without taking a camera along... The very activity of...

Making social comment is an artificial place for an artist to start from. If an...

Making social comment is an artificial place for an artist to start from. If an...

To photograph is to confer importance.

To photograph is to confer importance.

The past itself, as historical change continues to accelerate, has become the most surreal of...

The past itself, as historical change continues to accelerate, has become the most surreal of...

Cancer patients are lied to, not just because the disease is (or is thought to...

Cancer patients are lied to, not just because the disease is (or is thought to...

A family's photograph album is generally about the extended family and, often, is all that...

A family's photograph album is generally about the extended family and, often, is all that...

Existence is no more than the precarious attainment of relevance in an intensely mobile flux...

Existence is no more than the precarious attainment of relevance in an intensely mobile flux...

Mallarme said that everything in the world exists in order to end in a book....

Mallarme said that everything in the world exists in order to end in a book....