 | Marcia Landy - 1991 - 624 sider
...with a deep nostalgia, with an aching sense of the past: in the words of Susan Sontag, "Photographs promote nostalgia. Photography is an elegiac art, a twilight art. ... All photographs are momenti mori."': The New York scenes in Godfather II recall photographs by reason of their golden hues... | |
 | Dennis Porter - 1995 - 315 sider
...in all our lives the focus of a peculiarly unnerving pathos: "It is a nostalgic time right now, and photographs actively promote nostalgia. Photography is an elegiac art, a twilight art. Most subjects photographed are, just by virtue of being photographed, touched with pathos." And she... | |
 | Martin Klebes - 2006 - 316 sider
..."'But isn't the same at least the same?': Translatibility in Wittgenstein, Duchamp, and Roubaud." 42. "Photography is an elegiac art, a twilight art. . . . All photographs are memento mori" (Susan Sontag, On Photography, 15). 43. For more on the formal structure of La Boucle, see Peter Consenstein,... | |
 | Cheung, Chan-fai, Yu, Chung-Chi - 2007 - 793 sider
...memories along the corridor of the building of the KGI. Susan Sontag beautifully described this situation: "Photographs actively promote nostalgia. Photography is an elegiac art, a twilight art. Most subjects photographed are, just by virtue of being photographed, touched with pathos . . . All... | |
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All photographs are memento mori. To take a photograph is to participate in another person's (or thing's) mortality, vulnerability, mutability. 