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Susan Sontag
Age: 71 †
Born: 1933
Born: January 16
Died: 2004
Died: December 28
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Feminist
Film Critic
Film Director
Historian
Human Rights Activist
Journalist
Literary Critic
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Opinion Journalist
New York City
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When Cartier-Bresson goes to China, he shows that there are people in China, and that they are Chinese.
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A photograph comes into being, as it is seen, all at once.
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What is the most beautiful in virile men is something feminine what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine.
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That's what a community is: taking for granted certain assumptions, not having to start from zero every time. This is no longer true.
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The two ideas are antithetical. Insofar as photography is (or should be) about the world, the photographer counts for little, but insofar as it is the instrument of intrepid, questioning subjectivity, the photographer is all.
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A writer, I think, is someone who pays attention to the world.
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The only interesting answers are those that destroy the questions.
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Etymologically, 'patient' means sufferer.
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Fear of sexuality is the new, disease-sponsored register of the universe of fear in which everyone now lives.
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Strictly speaking, it is doubtful that a photograph can help us understand anything.
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Time exists in order that everything doesn’t happen all at once…and space exists so that it doesn’t all happen to you.
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The only transformation that interests me is a total transformation - however minute
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Norman Mailer in his writings is ultimately more concerned with success than with danger danger is only a means to success.
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The white race is the cancer of human history it is the white race and it alone — its ideologies and inventions — which eradicates autonomous civilizations wherever it spreads, which has upset the ecological balance of the planet, which now threatens the very existence of life itself.
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the appetite for thinking must be regulated, as all sensible people know, for it may stifle one's life.
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Art is not consciousness per se, but rather its antidote- evolved from within consciousness itself.
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Left-wing movements have tended to be unisex, and asexual in their imagery. Right-wing movements, however puritanical and repressive the realities they usher in, have an erotic surface. Certainly Nazism is sexier than communism.
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Paintings invariably sum up photographs usually do not. Photographic images are pieces of evidence in an ongoing biography or history. And one photograph, unlike one painting, implies that there will be others.
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Camp taste turns its back on the good-bad axis of ordinary aesthetic judgment. Camp doesn't reverse things. It doesn't argue that the good is bad, or the bad is good. What it does is to offer for art, and life, a different - a supplementary - set of standards.
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There is an aggression implicit in every use of the camera.
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