In the photos of Bate, Santag, and Benjamin

Author: Zhang Guanghe
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Publish Date: 2004-12-01
Features: "Photographs are actually captured experiences, and the camera is the ideal arm when consciousness wants to obtain something," Susan Sontag said. "People deprived of the past, whether at home or abroad, seem to become passionate photographers." These two sentences, whether in the past or the future, should always be a reflection of our lives. This is a book that discusses photography among various methods of collecting travel memories. When facing the scenery I admire, I feel as if I have been there before, or, I should go there. Roland Barthes said, "For me, landscape photographs (of cities or the countryside) should be inhabitable, not just visitable. That's why we hope to live in the photographs of Baudelaire, Sontag, and Benjamin." "Photographs are actually captured experiences, and the camera is the ideal arm when consciousness wants to obtain something. Susan Sontag said, "People deprived of the past, whether at home or abroad, seem to become passionate photographers." These two sentences, whether in the past or the future, should always be a reflection of our lives. This is a book that discusses photography among various methods of collecting travel memories. When facing the scenery I admire, I feel as if I have been there before, or, I should go there. Roland Barthes said, "For me, landscape photographs (of cities or the countryside) should be inhabitable, not just visitable. That's why we hope to live in the photographs of Baudelaire, Sontag, and Benjamin."