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Tag: Susan Sontag

By Hole Ousia Posted on January 10, 2026

Plough Hotel

To learn about an old family of the Plough Hotel, Yetholm, Scottish Borders, please click on the photograph below:

Categories: Scotland, Time passesTags: loss, mortality, Photography, Plough Hotel, Plough Inn, Roxburghshire, Scotland, Scottish Borders, Susan Sontag, Yetholm
By Hole Ousia Posted on December 17, 2025

Plough Inn, Yetholm

I came across this old photograph in Trove archive. I was struck by the positions of the people in the photograph: it was almost as if they had been styled … Continue reading Plough Inn, Yetholm

Categories: Architecture, Scotland, Time passesTags: loss, mortality, Photography, Scotland, Scottish Borders, Susan Sontag, Yetholm
By Hole Ousia Posted on January 3, 2024November 18, 2024

Time eventually positions photographs

Quote: Susan Sontag – On Photography. Photograph: St Fort, once not far from Montrose

Categories: Philosophy, Scotland, This is Not yesterday, Time passes, Two culturesTags: Photography, Susan Sontag
By Hole Ousia Posted on January 3, 2024November 18, 2024

when it appears to be for the present

Quote: Susan Sontag – On Photography. Photograph: Big Ted and Peter Scott-Gordon approaching Drumnessie in the Kilsyth Hills

Categories: Philosophy, Scotland, This is Not yesterday, Time passes, Two culturesTags: Big Ted, Peter Scott-Gordon, Photography, Susan Sontag
By Hole Ousia Posted on January 3, 2024November 18, 2024

It is not reality that photographs make accessible

Quote: Susan Sontag – On Photography. Photograph: Big Ted in the rear-view mirror of my Series II Land Rover

Categories: Philosophy, This is Not yesterday, Two culturesTags: Big Ted, Photography, reality, Susan Sontag
By Hole Ousia Posted on January 3, 2024November 18, 2024

not a flow

Quote: Susan Sontag – On Photography. Photograph: The Forbes children of Newe playing in the river Don

Categories: This is Not yesterday, Time passesTags: Photography, rivers, Susan Sontag
By Hole Ousia Posted on January 3, 2024November 18, 2024

a pseudo-presence and a token of absence

Quote: Susan Sontag – On Photography. Photograph: The Montrose Year Book

Categories: Philosophy, This is Not yesterday, Two culturesTags: absence, CANMORE, Photography, Susan Sontag
By Hole Ousia Posted on January 3, 2024November 18, 2024

time’s relentless melt

Quote: Susan Sontag – On Photography. Image: Dr Peter Scott-Gordon in Warriston Cemetery

Categories: Philosophy, This is Not yesterday, Time passes, Two culturesTags: mortality, Peter Scott-Gordon, Photography, Susan Sontag, tombstone, Warriston Cemetery

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