Photography as artefact

Photographs are, of course, artefacts.  But their appeal is that they also seem, in a world littered with photographic  relics, to have the status of found objects –unpremeditated slices of the world. Thus they trade simultaneously on the prestige of art and the magic of the real (Sontag, 1971, P. 69).

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