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John Berger Chapter 7

"Publicity images often use sculptures or paintings to lend allure or authority to their own message."

"Any work of art 'quoted' by publicity serves two purposes. Art is a sign of affluence; it belongs to the good life; it is part of the furnishing which the world gives to the rich and the beautiful."

Susan Sontag

"While a painting or a prose description can never be other than a narrowly selective interpretation, a photograph can be treated as a narrowly selective transparency."

"In deciding how a picture should look, in preferring one exposure to another, photographers are always imposing standards on their subjects.