The renowned author and critic Susan Sontag referenced the film in her 1977 collection of essays On Photography.
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In her article "On Photography" (1977), Susan Sontag discusses the objectivity, or lack thereof, in photography, concluding that "photographs, which fiddle with the scale of the world, themselves get reduced, blown up, cropped, retouched, doctored and tricked out".