953: Two Photographs
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Today\\u2019s poem is Two Photographs by Theresa Lola.
The Slowdown is your daily poetry ritual. In this episode, Major writes\\u2026 \\u201cSusan Sontag, writing about Robert Mapplethorpe, once wrote, \\u201ca [photograph] convey[s] a truth about the subject, a truth that would not be known were it not captured. . . All such claims, however contradictory, are claims of power over the subject.\\u201d The speaker in today\\u2019s poem remarks how photographs, be they selfies or those professionally rendered, capture our growth.\\u201d
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