Photography, Sex & Dancing

“Photography has become almost as widely practiced an amusement as sex and dancing — which means that, like every mass art form, photography is not practiced by most people as art. It is mainly a social rite, a defense against anxiety, and a tool of power.”

—Susan Sontag (1933-2004), writer, teacher and author of On Photography, a National Book Critics Circle Award-winner, 1977. Image: Jill Krementz, 1974. (Thanks to alert WORDster Mark Larson)

• Editorial Comment: All that changed, of course, with the cell phone camera . . .

Peezpix by Ted Pease

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