http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2013/09/16/susan-sontag-on-photography-social-media/

The ‘friends’ I lost due to my arguments ‘against photography’ might want to read Sontag. Her insight could save our world. So, too, might you…

Photography is violence.

But in our time, this violence is exponentially aggressive, and self-expanding… the costs are literally (old definition) inconceivable.