Nobody ever discovered ugliness through photographs. But
many, through photographs, have discovered beauty. Except for those situations in
which the camera is used to document, or to make social rites, what moves
people to take photographs is finding something beautiful. (The name under
which Fox Talbot patented the photograph in 1841 was calotype: from kalos,
beautiful). Nobody exclames, “Isn’t that ugly! I must take a photograph of it!”
Even if someone did say that, all it would mean is: “I find that ugly thing…
beautiful.”
Texto: in “On photography”, by Susan Sontag
Imagem: by me
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