Susan Sontag Quotes


Using a camera appeases the anxiety which the work-driven feel about not working when they are on vacation and supposed to be having fun. They have something to do that is like a friendly imitation of work: they can take pictures.


Citations

Sontag, Susan. On Photography. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1977, p. 10.

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Susan Sontag
Susan Sontag
  • Born: January 16, 1933
  • Died: December 28, 2004
  • Nationality: American
  • Profession: Novelist, Essayist, Filmmaker

Susan Sontag was an American writer, filmmaker, philosopher, teacher, and political activist. She mostly wrote essays, but also published novels; she published her first major work, the essay "Notes on 'Camp'", in 1964. Her best-known works include the critical works Against Interpretation (1966), Styles of Radical Will (1968), On Photography (1977), and Illness as Metaphor (1978), as well as the fictional works The Way We Live Now (1986), The Volcano Lover (1992), and In America (1999).