论摄影
这次摘抄苏珊·桑塔格《论摄影》第一章节结尾段的部分内容,将它放置到城市中拍照这一行为最泛滥的地方之一,进行直接的警醒和批判。
把这段话放置到最盛产照片的空间,希望每一位读到它的人都能在按下快门时试着反问自己:
当我拍摄照片时,我究竟在拍摄什么?
需要由照片来确认现实和强化经验,这乃是一种美学消费主义,大家都乐此不疲。工业社会使其公民患上影像瘾;这是最难以抗拒的精神污染形式。强烈渴求美,强烈渴求终止对表面以下的探索,强烈渴求救赎和赞美世界的肉身——所有这些情欲感觉都在我们从照片获得的快感中得到确认。 ...今天,一切事物的存在,都是为了在一张照片中终结。 苏珊·桑塔格《论摄影》(黄灿然 译)
Needing to have reality confirmed and experience enhanced by photographs is an aestheticconsumerism to which everyone is now addicted. Industrial societies turn their citizens into image-junkies; it is the most irresistible form of mental pollution. Poignant longings for beauty, for an end to probing below the surface, for a redemption and celebration of the body of the world - all these elements of erotic feeling are affirmed in the pleasure we take in photographs.…
Today everything exists to end in a photograph.
On Photography Susan Sontag
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