{"id":694,"date":"2008-11-02T10:28:01","date_gmt":"2008-11-02T10:28:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/we-english.co.uk\/blog\/?p=694"},"modified":"2008-11-03T10:33:55","modified_gmt":"2008-11-03T10:33:55","slug":"the-hunter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/we-english.co.uk\/blog\/2008\/11\/02\/the-hunter\/","title":{"rendered":"THE HUNTER"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Quite belatedly, I&#8217;m reading Susan Sontag&#8217;s book <a title=\"On Photography available on Amazon.co.uk\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/Photography-Susan-Sontag\/dp\/0140053972\/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books&amp;qid=1225708171&amp;sr=8-3\" target=\"_blank\">On Photography<\/a> (Penguin Books, 1971).<\/p>\n<p>Just read this paragraph, which seems somewhat relevant to my last post&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153One situation where people are switching from bullets to film is the photographic safari that is replacing the gun safari in East Africa. The hunters have Hasselblads instead of Winchesters; instead of looking through a telescopic sight to aim a rifle, they look through a viewfinder to frame a picture\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6.The photographer is now charging real beasts, beleaguered and too rare to kill. Guns have metamorphosed into cameras in this earnest comedy, the ecology safari, because nature has ceased to be what it always had been \u00e2\u20ac\u201c what people needed protection from. Now nature \u00e2\u20ac\u201c tamed, endangered, mortal \u00e2\u20ac\u201c needs to be protected from people. When we are afraid, we shoot. But when we are nostalgic, we take pictures.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/we-english.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/susansontagonphotography.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-696\" title=\"susansontagonphotography\" src=\"http:\/\/we-english.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/susansontagonphotography.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"283\" height=\"426\" srcset=\"https:\/\/we-english.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/susansontagonphotography.jpg 283w, https:\/\/we-english.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/susansontagonphotography-199x300.jpg 199w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 283px) 100vw, 283px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Quite belatedly, I&#8217;m reading Susan Sontag&#8217;s book On Photography (Penguin Books, 1971). Just read this paragraph, which seems somewhat relevant to my last post&#8230;. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153One situation where people are switching from bullets to film is the photographic safari that is replacing the gun safari in East Africa. The hunters have Hasselblads instead of Winchesters; instead [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":696,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/we-english.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/694"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/we-english.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/we-english.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/we-english.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/we-english.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=694"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/we-english.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/694\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":697,"href":"https:\/\/we-english.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/694\/revisions\/697"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/we-english.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/696"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/we-english.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/we-english.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/we-english.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}