Susan Sontag Quotes About Travel
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People robbed of their past seem to make the most fervent picture takers, at home and abroad.
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I haven't been everywhere, but it's on my list.
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Using a camera appeases the anxiety which the work-driven feel about not working when they are on vacation and supposed to be having fun. They have something to do that is like a friendly imitation of work: they can take pictures.
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Travel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs.
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A way of certifying experience, taking photographs is also a way of refusing it - by limiting experience to a search for the photogenic, by converting experience into an image, a souvenir. Travel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs.
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