Susan Sontag
Susan Sontag
Susan Sontagwas an American writer, filmmaker, teacher and political activist. She published her first major work, the essay "Notes on 'Camp'", in 1964. Her best-known works include On Photography, Against Interpretation, Styles of Radical Will, The Way We Live Now, Illness as Metaphor, Regarding the Pain of Others, The Volcano Lover and In America...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionAuthor
Date of Birth16 January 1933
CountryUnited States of America
people cynical failing
People tend to become cynical about even the most appalling crisis if it seems to be dragging on, failing to come to term.
perspective exotic association
The fact that illness is associated with the poor --who are, from the perspective of the privileged, aliens in one's midst --reinforces the association of illness with the foreign with an exotic, often primitive place.
photography photograph ugliness
Nobody ever discovered ugliness through photographs. But many, through photographs, have discovered beauty.
photography inspire lust
The possession of a camera can inspire something akin to lust. And like all credible forms of lust, it cannot be satisfied.
real reality
Images are more real than anyone could have supposed.
reality cameras seems
Reality has come to seem more and more like what we are shown by cameras.
art self people
Self-exposure is commendable in art only when it is of a quality and complexity that allows other people to learn about themselves from it.
avid sight want
Sight is a promiscuous sense. The avid gaze always wants more.
two minorities moral
The two pioneering forces of modern sensibility are Jewish moral seriousness and homosexual aestheticism and irony.
success mean writing
Norman Mailer in his writings is ultimately more concerned with success than with danger; danger is only a means to success.
beautiful training orbit
Norman Mailer records in his recent essays and public appearances his perfecting of himself as a virile instrument of letters; he is perpetually in training, getting ready to launch himself from his own missile pad into a high, beautiful orbit; even his failures may yet be turned to successes.
exercise tragedy analysis
Modern discussions of the possibility of tragedy are not exercises in literary analysis; they are exercises in cultural diagnostics, more or less disguised.
photography world photograph
To collect photographs is to collect the world.
photography men vocation
The highest vocation of photography is to explain man to man.