Among the literary stars of the radical 1960s, Susan Sontag (born 1933) produced numerous works evaluating and commenting on contemporary life and literature. Her essays appeared in nearly every major...
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Susan Sontag, cultural critic, essayist, novelist, and filmmaker, was born 16 January 1933 in New York City. She grew up in Tucson, Arizona, and Los Angeles, California, and at the age of fifteen (194...
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Although Susan Sontag is best known as a critic, she has more than once expressed regret for having devoted so much time to having written the essays that brought her renown. As she once explained to ...
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Critical Essay by William H. Gass
[On Photography] is a thoughtful meditation, not a treatise, and its ideas are grouped more nearly like a gang of keys upon a ring than a run of onions on a string. ...
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Critical Essay by Richard Kuczkowski
[In On Photography Sontag suggests that] photography is an aggressive, appropriating act (one shoots/takes a picture) which "makes reality atomic, manageab...
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Critical Essay by George P. Elliott
If photography were in fact the primary subject of [On Photography], one would be obliged to take exception to the many omissions and odd emphases to be found in i...
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Critical Essay by Maren Stange
[Sontag] attributes her essays [in On Photography] to "my obsession with photography" and expresses herself often in the language of disease. She particul...
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Critical Essay by Robert Melville
[On Photography] is a surrealistic demonstration of the art of juxtaposition, a St Vitus's dance of modest, ambitious and absurd claims for photography inters...
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Susan Sontag claims in her passage, On Photography, that photography limits our understanding of the world. However, the truth is that photography enhanced our understanding of the world. It allows u...
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Teaching On Photography
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On Photography Lesson Plans contain 109 pages of teaching material, including:
"Walk slowly. Watch your cameras," she said. Microphone booms swung through the air, nearly knocking the photos off the wall. "Careful, we have lots of time," she said as she was followed.
Ms. Lei...
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Elizabeth Hardwick, a Kentucky-born author and critic whose incisive prose and steady spirit helped her well fulfill her dream of becoming a "New York Intellectual," has died at age 91.Hardwick, wh...
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It's one of the functions of anniversary celebrations to evoke happy memories, and on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the founding of the Zabriskie Gallery in New York, I want to recall an ...
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SWIMMING IN A SEA OF DEATH By David Rieff Simon & Schuster, 179 pages, $21
There’s something obscene about sitting at a desk, in a chair that corrects the posture, sipping warm...
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At first glance, the cover of Susan Sontag’s final book—the almost-complete manuscript she left at her death in December 2004—seems antiseptic and ultra-modern, like an architect...
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What a Tuesday for Jerry Speyer! First, his firm partners with Lehman Brothers to buy apartment behemoth Archstone-Smith in a historic deal worth $22.2 billion. Then, the board of trustees of the M...
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I’m under attack. I’m the Typhoid Mary of the art world. In the last few weeks, I’ve been publicly vilified as “a hack” and a “rip-off artist.” It has even...
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I’m under attack. I’m the Typhoid Mary of the art world. In the last few weeks, I’ve been publicly vilified as “a hack” and a “rip-off artist.” It has even...
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Susan Sontag
Susan Sontag
Critical Essay by William H. Gass
Photography Enhances Our Understanding of the World
Annie Leibovitz, Having Seen
