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Susan Sontag was an American writer, critic, and photographer. Known for her unique literary style and profound thinking, her work spans various fields including literature, art, and politics. Born on January 16, 1933, she passed away on December 28, 2004.

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Famous Susan Sontag Quotes

“The photograph is like a quotation, or a maxim or proverb. Each of us mentally stocks hundreds of photographs, subject to instant recall.”

Subjects Photograph Instant Recalls Quotations Maxims

Book:Regarding the Pain of Others

Source: Regarding the Pain of Others

“Photographs shock insofar as they show something novel.”

Shows Novel Photograph Shock

Book:On photography

Source: On photography

“Photographs may be more memorable than moving images, because they are a neat slice of time, not a flow. Each still photograph is a privileged moment turned into a slim object that one can keep and look at again.”

Looks May Stills Moments Moving Objects Flow Photograph Memorable Privileged Neat Slim

Book:On photography

Source: On photography

“To photograph people is to violate them, by seeing them as they never see themselves, by having knowledge of them that they can never have.”

People Seeing Photograph Subliminal

Author:Susan Sontag

“It is a nostalgic time right now, and photographs actively promote nostalgia. Photography is an elegiac art, a twilight art. Most subjects photographed are, just by virtue of being photographed, touched with pathos. ... All photographs are memento mori. To take photograph is to participate in another person's mortality, vulnerability, mutability. Precisely by slicing out this moment and freezing it, all photographs testify to time's relentless melt”

Persons Art Moments Virtue Subjects Right Now Photography Photograph Nostalgia Vulnerability Touched Mortality Twilight Relentless Nostalgic Freezing Pathos Memento Mori Memento Mutability

Author:Susan Sontag

“A photograph comes into being, as it is seen, all at once.”

Photography Photograph

Author:Susan Sontag

“To collect photographs is to collect the world.”

World Photography Photograph

Book:On photography

Source: On photography

“Nobody ever discovered ugliness through photographs. But many, through photographs, have discovered beauty.”

Photography Photograph Ugliness

Book:On photography

Source: On photography

About the Author

Born: January 16, 1933
Died: December 28, 2004
Known for: Writer
Quotes: 643

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On photographyRelated source material

A Susan Sontag readerRelated source material

Regarding the Pain of OthersRelated source material

As Consciousness Is Harnessed to Flesh: Journals and Notebooks, 1964-1980Related source material

Reborn: Journals and Notebooks, 1947-1963Related source material

At the Same Time: Essays and SpeechesRelated source material

The Volcano LoverRelated source material

Illness as metaphorRelated source material

Illness as Metaphor and AIDS and Its MetaphorsRelated source material

Susan Sontag: Ansprachen aus Anlass der VerleihungRelated source material

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