Reflet de l'acceleration du changement social

"(...) Cameras began duplicating the world at that moment when the human landscape started to undergo a vertiginous rate of change: while an untold number of forms of biological and social life are being destroyed in a brief span of time, a device is available is available to record what is disappearing. (...)"

Susan Sontag / On photography / Penguin Books / 2002 pour l'édition consultée / pp 15-16