Pics Or It Didn’t Happen Is Photography Even a Healthy Pastime? Considering Susan Sontag’s ‘On Photography’ via Medium: https://medium.com/vantage/pics-or-it-didn-t-happen-b949795cf185 Is Photography Even a Healthy Pastime? Considering Susan Sontag’s ‘On Photography’
New Susan Sontag Documentary Sheds Light on Her Love Affair with Images Regarding Susan Sontag, now completed, aims to paint a portrait of the revered woman in a way that is both empathetic and honest, that reveals the living, breathing woman behind those courageous and incisive words. While Sontag’s legacy lies in words, it was…
Susan Sontag was right: War photography can anesthetize A troubling new exhibit at the Brooklyn Museum of Art throws into question the medium’s very purpose via Salon: http://www.salon.com/2014/01/05/war_photography_partner/ A troubling new exhibit at the Brooklyn Museum of Art throws into question the medium’s very purpose
On (Digital) Photography: Sontag, 34 Years Later Amid a blizzard of images, what is the worth of one photograph? Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/08/magazine/mag-08Riff-t.html?_r=1&partner=rss&emc=rss Photography is a kingdom of glamour and banality
NYT: In 1998 Ms. Sontag received a diagnosis of cancer, from which she recovered. Ms. Leibovitz took several months off to be with her. There are photographs of that period too, of Ms. Sontag receiving chemotherapy, having her hair cut. “You know, one doesn’t stop seeing,” Ms. Leibovitz said, when asked about her impulse to…
