Michelangelo’s David in the Galleria dell'Accademia, Florence. Photo by Brian Banford, Pexels.
Three decades before the invention of smartphone cameras, Susan Sontag’s groundbreaking book On Photography was published in 1977. In one of its chapters, Sontag explores how tourists use the camera’s lens to engage with their surroundings, constantly searching…
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