The Unintended Power of the Asiana Crash Photo

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The Unintended Power of the Asiana Crash Photo – PhotoShelter Blog

In her seminal essay On Photography, Susan Sontag writes: “Photographed images do not seem to be statements about the world so much as pieces of it, miniatures of reality that anyone can make or acquire.” This has never been truer than now as the ubiquity

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It is a curious case of citizen journalism deflating the value of the image while providing an almost socialist benefit. Everyone was able to share the experience of a crash survivor for free (and ad free).