Narratives can make us understand. Photographs do something else: they haunt us.

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Sontag, Susan. Regarding the Pain of Others. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2003, ch. 5.

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A quote by Susan Sontag about photography: “Narratives can make us understand. Photographs do something else: they haunt…”

A quote by Susan Sontag about photography: “Narratives can make us understand. Photographs do something else: they haunt…”

A quote by Susan Sontag about photography: “Narratives can make us understand. Photographs do something else: they haunt…”