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Susan Sontag | | Birth Date: |
January 28, 1933 | | Place of Birth: |
New York, New York, United States | | Nationality: |
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 Biography of Susan Sontag
775 words, approx. 2.6 pages
 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 publication beginning in 1962, and her assessment of... summary from source:
 Biography of Susan Sontag
4862 words, approx. 16.2 pages
 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 reporter Leticia Kent, "a couple of things you do get... summary from source:
Biography of Susan Sontag
2501 words, approx. 8.3 pages
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 (1948) entered the University of California at Berkeley. S...
Encyclopedia and Summary Information
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 On Photography Information
591 words, approx. 2 pages
On Photography is a 1977 collection of essays by Susan Sontag. There are no...
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 The Independent - London Photography
03/15/1994: 663 words, approx. 2 pages Joachim Schmid - a German artist and collector - takes photographs seriously. He believes that we take too many of them and blames it on the ease with which people take snapshots. Last year, according to Kodak, two billion photographs were taken in Britain... summary from source:
Science Weekly Photography.
09/28/2001: 6,893 words, approx. 23 pages Early Cameras Have you ever looked at a photograph and wondered how it was made? The ancient Greeks were able to produce images in darkened rooms. They let light enter the room through a small hole in one wall. The image appeared upside... summary from source:
 The New York Observer Annie Leibovitz, Having Seen
10/29/2006: 438 words, approx. 2 pages"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. Leibovitz has recently been profiled in Newsweek, The New York Times, and... summary from source:
AP News Author-critic dead at 91
12/4/2007: 767 words, approx. 3 pagesElizabeth 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, who lived for decades on Manhattan's Upper West Side, died in her sleep Sunday night...
Literary Criticism
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 Critical Essay by Maren Stange
1,088 words, approx. 4 pages
[Sontag] attributes her essays [in On Photography] to "my obsession with photography" and expresses herself often in the language of disease. She particularly favors "addiction" and "pollution"—"Industrial societies turn their citizens into image-junkies; it is the most irresistible form of mental pollution"—and "compulsive consumption"—"We consume images at an ever faster rate and … images consume reali... summary from source:
Critical Essay by George P. Elliott
879 words, approx. 3 pages
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 it. Susan Sontag says everything worth saying about Diane Arbus's grotesquerie, almost nothing about Ansel Adams's photographs (though she does sneer at some of his prose), and nothing valuable about Dorothea Lange; she finds Richard Avedon interesting but does not mention Wright Morris (who in God's Country and My People combi... summary from source:
Critical Essay by Robert Melville
503 words, approx. 2 pages
[On Photography] is a surrealistic demonstration of the art of juxtaposition, a St Vitus's dance of modest, ambitious and absurd claims for photography interspersed with advertisements for cameras so simple to use that anyone can obtain instant results of high technical quality. The outcome is an effect of ironic neutrality. [Sontag's] essays on the other hand are analytical, paradoxical, controversial, always clever, often profound—and the outcome is an effect of ironic neutrality. (p....
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