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Susan Sontag

Susan Sontagwas a Jewish-American writer, filmmaker, teacher, and political activist. She published her first major work, the essay "Notes on 'Camp'", in 1964. Her best-known works include On Photography, Against Interpretation, Styles of Radical Will, The Way We Live Now, Illness as Metaphor, Regarding the Pain of Others, The Volcano Lover, and In America.

Sontag was active in writing and speaking about, or travelling to, areas of conflict, including during the Vietnam War and the Siege of Sarajevo. She wrote extensively about photography, culture and media, AIDS and illness, human rights, and communism and leftist ideology. Although her essays and speeches sometimes drew controversy, she has been described as "one of the most influential critics of her generation
years of life: 16 January 1933 28 December 2004

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In teaching us a new visual code, photographs alter and enlarge our notions of what is worth looking at and what we have a right to observe.
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grammar and, even more importantly, an ethics of seeing.
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means putting oneself into a certain relation to the world that feels like knowledge—and, therefore, like power.

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