"Photographed images do not seem to be statements about the world so much as pieces of it, miniatures of reality that anyone can make or acquire." - Susan Sontag
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| Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco, California Taken by: Me |
It's strange to think that most people can describe how landmarks or other countries look, without ever having visited there. I had spent a semester in San Francisco and this photo was taken the first time I had ever been there. Although, I had never seen the Golden Gate Bridge before this day, I had seen it in photos, but it never seemed real until I had actually seen it for myself. I think this can be explained by Susan Sontag's quote in On Photography. There may already be millions of existing photos of this same bridge existing, this one is special to me because I took this one myself. As a result, I have a sense of entitled over it, although I obviously have no entitlement over the bridge itself, which I think is what Sontag is trying to convey.
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