Archive For The “Stryker’s Hand” Category
I love this photo. I chose it because I love it, and I wanted to recover it from the depths of the Library of Congress archive. I want to redeem this photo from Stryker’s harsh hand and resurrect the image from where he tried to bury it when he chose to kill the negative. Like…
In her widely influential collection of essays, On Photography, Susan Sontag writes: To photograph is to confer importance. There is probably no subject that cannot be beautified; moreover, there is no way to suppress the tendency inherent in all photographs to accord value to their subjects (28). Whatever the FSA’s political motives, it is hard…