![]() 2) On how photos have altered our notion of what is beautiful Ultimately, having an experience becomes identical with taking a photograph of it, and participating in a public event comes more and more to be equivalent to looking at it in photographed form. It would not be wrong to speak of people having a compulsion to photograph: to turn experience itself into a way of seeing. But other, less liberating feelings are expressed as well. ![]() ![]() Poignant longings for beauty, for an end to probing below the surface, for a redemption and celebration of the body of the world - all these elements of erotic feeling are affirmed in the pleasure we take in photographs. Industrial societies turn their citizens into image-junkies it is the most irresistible form of mental pollution. Needing to have reality confirmed and experience enhanced by photographs is an aesthetic consumerism to which everyone is now addicted. 1) On the way photos have turned us into image junkies ![]()
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