Creator Bio
Susan Sontag
1933–2004
Born in New York, Susan Sontag grew up in Tucson and Los Angeles. As a critic, essayist, novelist, short-story writer, and playwright, Sontag produced controversial works on contemporary art, philosophy, literature, politics, and morality. She explored the art of photography and wrote about the stigma and metaphorical interpretations of disease in contemporary society. Among her numerous awards was the 2001 Jerusalem Prize.
Entries in the Posen Library by This Creator
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Photography
Photographs shock us in so far as they show us something novel. Unfortunately, the ante keeps getting raised—partly through the very proliferation of such images of horror. One’s first encounter with…
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On Courage and Resistance
Let’s start with risk. The risk of being punished. The risk of being isolated. The risk of being injured or killed. The risk of being scorned. We are all conscripts in one sense or another. For all of…