Our
very sense of situation is now articulated by the
camera’s interventions.
…
This, in turn, makes it easy to feel that any
event, once underway, and whatever its moral
character, should be allowed to complete itself-
so that something else can be brought into the
world, the photograph. After the event has ended,
the picture will still exist, conferring on the event
a kind of immortality (and importance) it would
never otherwise have enjoyed.