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Photography

The medium that changed what everything else was for.

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Photorealism

Photorealism didn’t copy reality—it outsourced seeing to the camera, then called the result painting.
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Susan Sontag

Sontag didn’t just write about images—she diagnosed how they replaced memory with recall.

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