In 1964, for a semester, she was Writer in Residenc at Of the authorship of the book, Sontag always insisted that she wroteįor four years, Sontag was an instructor in the religion department Rieff never published anything as brilliant as this work. She collaborated with Rieff on a study of Freud's cultural influence, Freud: The Mind of the Moralist (1959). In 1957-58 Sontag studied at the University of Paris. 49) With Rieff Sontag moved to Boston and continued her studiesĪt Harvard, where she was a Ph.D. "I did it and now I don't have to do itĪnymore." ( Susan Sontag: The Making of an Icon, Revised and Updated Carl Rollyson and Lisa Paddock, 2016, p. "I was lucky enough to have a child and be married when I was very Philip Rieff, a sociology instructor they divorced in the late 1950s. In her sophomore year she married the 28-year-old Undergraduate work she did at the College of the University of Chicago, The University of California at Berkeley, but most of her
" ( At the Same Time: Essays & Speeches by Susan Sontag, 2007, p. To escape into a larger reality, was reading books. Schoolchild in Arizona," she wrote, "waiting to grow up, waiting Because of anemia, Sontag's mother gave her
Tucson, Arizona, and Los Angeles, California. She married army captain Nathan Sontag in 1945.ĭue to Sontag's asthma, the family left New York City. Sontag inherited his photographic memory. Of pulmonary tuberculosis when she was five. Rosenblatt, had a fur trading business in China – he died in China The camera/gun does not kill, so the ominous metaphor seems to be allīluff – like a man's fantasy of having a gun, knife, or tool between his legs." (from On Photography, 1977) This much truth: except in wartime, cars kill more people than guns do. In the hyperbole that markets cars like guns, there is at least However, despite theĮxtravagances of ordinary language and advertising, they are not "Like guns and cars, cameras areįantasy-machines whose use is addictive. She had a great impact on experimental art in the 1960s andġ970s, and she introduced many new stimulating ideas to American culture. Susan SontagĪlso wrote screenplays and directed films. Subjects as camp, pornographic literature, fascistĪesthetics, photography, AIDS, and revolution gained a wide attention.
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