In 1945, James Agee, film critic for the Nation magazine, pointed out the documentary’s tragic tendency toward pornography, what I call pornography of the real. PORNOGRAPHY is the objectifying of a graphic image, reducing it to some essential aspect of itself so the thing or person depicted can be commodified, circulated, and consumed without regard to its status as a subject— that is, turning it into something useful for someone else.
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