"[…] there is something predatory in the act of taking a picture. To photograph people is to..."

“[…] there is something predatory in the act of taking a picture. To photograph people is to violate them, by seeing them as they never see themselves, by having knowledge of them they can never have; it turns people into objects that can be symbolically possessed.”

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Susan Sontag, On Photography 

(cited by Ben Basche in Ghost in the machine: Snapchat isn’t mobile-first — it’s something else entirely)

from Stowe Boyd http://www.stoweboyd.com/post/149595704927