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Susan Sontag Quotes: Instead of just recording reality photographs have become the norm for the way things appear to us thereby changing the very idea of reality and of realism.
         

Instead of just recording reality photographs have become the norm for the way things appear to us thereby changing the very idea of reality and of realism.


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Instead of just recording reality photographs have become the norm for the way things appear to us thereby changing the very idea of reality and of realism.
         



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