I write entirely to find out what I’m thinking,
what I’m looking at,
what I see and what it means.
What I want and what I fear.
— from Why I Write by Joan Didion
Archive for the ‘Susan Sontag’ Tag
BURNING CONSCIOUSNESS!! Leave a comment
I write entirely to find out what I’m thinking,
Mountain Shadows Leave a comment
Mountain Shadows (Santa Catalina Mountains) — Image by kenne
“Today everything exists to end in a photograph.”
— Susan Sontag
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Peloncillo Mountains 1 comment
Doubtful Pass In The Peloncillo Mountains — Image by kenne
The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people’s reality, and eventually in one’s own.
— Susan Sontag
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Audrey (July 2019) — Image by kenne
“Do stuff.
Be clenched, curious.
Not waiting for inspiration’s shove
or society’s kiss on your forehead.
Pay attention.
It’s all about paying attention.
Attention is vitality.
It connects you with others.
It makes you eager. stay eager.”
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Tucson Basin — Photo-Artistry by kenne
“Remembering is an ethical act, has ethical value in and of itself. Memory is,
achingly, the only relation we can have with the dead. So the belief that
remembering is an ethical act is deep in our natures as humans, who know
we are going to die, and who mourn those who in the normal course of
things die before us—grandparents, parents, teachers, and older friends.”
— Susan Sontag
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Geo-Wall — Photo-Artistry 1 comment
Geo-Wall (Sonoran Desert)– Photo-Artistry by kenne
Wildflowers take growth
In the least likely places
Life’s random nature.
— kenne
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La Paz, Bolivia (08/17/19) — Image by kenne
“Narratives can make us understand.
Photographs do something else: they haunt us.”
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“Bee On Yellow Flower” — Image by kenne
“Compassion is an unstable emotion. It needs to be translated into action, or it withers.
The question of what to do with the feelings that have been aroused,
the knowledge that has been communicated. If one feels
that there is nothing ‘we’ can do — but who is that ‘we’? —
and nothing ‘they’ can do either — and who are ‘they’ —
then one starts to get bored, cynical, apathetic.”
― from Regarding the Pain of Others by
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Tourist In Other People’s Reality (1974) — a caricature of kenne
In 1974 an artist friend I worked with at a publishing company drew this caricature of me trying to include all the things he felt identified with me. For a long time, it hung on the wall in my office(s). One day I used a sharpy and wrote on the glass of the framed poster, “I’m a tourist in other people’s reality,” which sums up my life. I borrowed the line from Susan Sontag’s book (On Photography), “The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people’s reality, and eventually in one’s own.”
— kenne
Pinned on the wall in the drawing is the Edmund Burke quote:
“No men can act with effect who do not act in concert;
no men can act in concert who do not act with confidence;
no men can act with confidence who are not bound together
with common opinions, common affections, and common interests.”
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Richardson’s Geranium Wildflower — Photo-Artistry by kenne
If literature has engaged me as a project, first as a reader,
then as a writer, it is an extension of my sympathies to
other selves, other domains, other dreams, other worlds, other territories.
— Susan Sontag
(I’m currently reading Benjamin Moser’s latest book, “Sontag — Her Life and Work.)
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Bee On A Desert Chicory Wildflower — Photo-Artistry by kenne
“The primitive notion of the efficacy of images
presumes that images possess the qualities of real things,
but our inclination is to attribute real things the quality of images.”
— Susan Sontag
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The Photographer — Photo-Artistry by kenne
“In America,
the photographer is not simply
the person who records the past,
but the one who invents it.”
— Susan Sontag
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Mushroom Photo-Artistry by kenne
Perhaps nothing about a person is more potent,
and also more arbitrary, than the person’s name.
— Susan Sontag
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Two-Tailed Swallowtail Butterflies–Photo-Artistry 4 comments
Two-Tailed Swallowtail Butterflies — Photo-Artistry by kenne
The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people’s reality,
and eventually in one’s own.
— Susan Sontag
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Trail Through Mountain Meadow Grass 5 comments
Trail Through Mountain Meadow Grass — Digital Art by kenne
The primitive notion of the efficacy of images presumes
that images possess the qualities of real things, but our
inclination is to attribute to real things the qualities of images.
— Susan Sontag
Becoming is Superior to Being 