Photorealism
Photorealism didn’t copy reality—it outsourced seeing to the camera, then called the result painting.
Photography
The medium that changed what everything else was for.
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Kate Moss
She wasn’t a model who broke the mould—she was the mould that replaced it.
Susan Sontag
Sontag didn’t just write about images—she diagnosed how they replaced memory with recall.
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