HBO recently released their latest documentary, Regarding Susan Sontag. Other than the corny interstitials, the film creates a wonderful portrait of Sontag’s life using a huge assortments of interviews and clips and so on. She lived an incredible life and wrote remarkable essays, including her famed writings On Photography and Illness as Metaphor. In the clip above, she rips apart an interviewer for asking her "contentious" questions.
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Spent an hour looking at my boyfriends Facebook pictures and then taking pictures of the pictures because I am still trying to wrap my head around the fact that this dude wants to look at my face all the time.
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this picture makes me think that I am probably the perfect candidate for immaculate conception
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As a writer, Allan described with great clarity and passion what photography can, and must do: document the facts of social relations while opening a more metaphoric space to allow viewers the idea that things could be different. And as a photographer he set out to do just that. He laid bare the ugliness of exploitation, but showed us the beauty of the ordinary; of ordinary, working people in ordinary, unremarkable places doing ordinary, everyday things. And, like the rigorous old-style leftist that he was, he infused that beauty with a deep sense of morality.
RIP
An Influential professor, mentor, human. the fact that he even acknowledged my work is unprecedented.
(via am-cozy)
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jeez sam alden leave some talent for the rest of us
I only want to make art about figuring out what teenage boys talked about when we weren’t around
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