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The photographs of Los Angeles on fire speak variously of environmental collapse, policy failure, ineluctable helplessness—but they won’t be lasting images. “Our ways of seeing are not yet adequate to our predicament,” Teju Cole writes.
newyorker.com
A City on Fire Can’t Be Photographed
The images of a burning Los Angeles won’t last, simply because our ways of seeing are inadequate to our predicament.