#how regardless of a photojournalist's noble intentions

[kentucky-daisey]

It is always the image that someone chose; to photograph is to frame, and to frame is to exclude.

Regarding the Pain of Others, Susan Sontag

#susan sontag #regarding the pain of others #text #quote #quotation #literature #photography #photojournalism #book #critical theory #how regardless of a photojournalist's noble intentions #the image will always be dictated by the person who took it #and will always be perceived by how it was framed #the image shown is that of which the photographer has decided to show us #without any further context #it simply is and will always take on its own meaning #especially over time as memory of the event depicted fades