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Narratives can make us understand. Photographs do something else: they haunt us. — Susan Sontag

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Narratives can make us understand. Photographs do something else: they haunt us.

Susan Sontag
2003
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Susan Sontag
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Sontag, Susan. Regarding the Pain of Others. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2003, ch. 5.

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