“So-called "realist" photography does not capture the "what is." Instead, it is preoccupied with what should not be, like the reality of suffering for example.”

— Jean Baudrillard

New millennium, Photography, or the Writing of Light, (2000)

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French sociologist and philosopher 1929–2007

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