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Susan Sontag

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The shock of photographed atrocities wears off with repeated viewings, just as the surprise and bemusement felt the first time one sees a pornographic movie wear off after one sees a few more.


— Susan Sontag


#photography #pornography #movies

With genius, as with beauty -- all, well almost all, is forgiven.


— Susan Sontag


#exemptions #forgiveness #generosity #genius #leniency

Photographs shock insofar as they show something novel.


— Susan Sontag


#news #novelty #photography #shock #art

That's the source of the meditation on death I've carried in my heart all my life.


— Susan Sontag


#death

AIDS occupies such a large part in our awareness because of what it has been taken to represent. It seems the very model of all the catastrophes privileged populations feel await them.


— Susan Sontag


#await #awareness #because #been #catastrophes

AIDS obliges people to think of sex as having, possibly, the direst consequences: suicide. Or murder.


— Susan Sontag


#consequences #having #murder #obliges #people

Depression is melancholy minus its charms - the animation, the fits.


— Susan Sontag


#charms #depression #fits #melancholy #minus

A fiction about soft or easy deaths is part of the mythology of most diseases that are not considered shameful or demeaning.


— Susan Sontag


#considered #deaths #demeaning #diseases #easy

Victims suggest innocence. And innocence, by the inexorable logic that governs all relational terms, suggests guilt.


— Susan Sontag


#guilt #inexorable #innocence #logic #suggest

As photographs give people an imaginary possession of a past that is unreal, they also help people to take possession of space in which they are insecure.


— Susan Sontag


#give #help #help people #imaginary #insecure






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"
Ellen Lee accused Sontag of plagiarism when Lee discovered at least twelve passages in In America that were similar to or copied from passages in four other books about Helena Modjeska without attribution. The last two novels were set in the past which Sontag said gave her greater freedom to write in the polyphonic voice. She elevated Camp to the status of recognition with her widely-read 1964 essay Notes on 'Camp' which accepted Art as including common absurd and burlesque themes.

". Sontag was active in writing and speaking about or travelling to areas of conflict including during the Vietnam War and the Siege of Sarajevo. Beginning with the publication of her 1964 essay "Notes on 'Camp'" Sontag became an international cultural and intellectual celebrity.

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