Portrait of Susan Sontag
‘To collect photography is to collect the world’, Susan Sontag wrote in her bestseller On Photography (1977). This book must have been an eye-opener for many people and undoubtedly contributed to the widespread interest in photography today. It is thanks to photography that we have a better perception of the world. The Rijksmuseum collects photographs as still images, as tangible objects, historical documents
or artistic expressions.