Desire has no history... - Susan Sontag

Harrowing photographs do not inevitably lose their power to shock. But they are not much help if the task is to understand.

For boredom is just the reverse side of fascination: both depend on being outside rather than inside a situation, and one leads to the other.

In the real world, something is happening and no one knows what is going to happen. In the image-world, it has happened, and it will forever happen in that way.