Humankind lingers unregenerately in Plato’s cave, still reveling, its age-old habit, in mere images of the truth. But being educated by photographs is not monitoredlike being educated by older, more artisanal images. For one thing, there are a great many more images around, claiming our attention. The inventory started in 1839 and since then just about everything has been photographed, or so it seems. This very insatiability of the photographing eye changes the terms of confinement in the cave, our world. In teaching us a new visual code, photographs alter and enlarge our notions of what is worth looking at and what we have a right to observe. They are a grammar and, even more importantly, an ethics of seeing. Finally, the most grandiose result of the photographic enterprise is to give us the sense that we can hold the whole world in our heads — as an anthology of images.
How my heart sings 
The lady doth protest too much, methinks.
I find it interesting even if I don’t agree cocmpletely.Itm ust make a big figgerenfe now to have people able to take photos all day long,,
I agree, when she comments that photography can become an addiction, but I think she over-intellectualises in a way that is popular In America, where public adulation becomes an addiction, too.
I think she was very aware top have said this 3o years ago.And also we need to judge whether we are biased because we like taking photos