Susan Sontag (Jan. 16, 1933 – Dec. 28, 2004) was a writer, philosopher, 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), On Photography (1977), Illness as Metaphor (1978) and Regarding the Pain of Others — as well as the fictional works The Way We Live Now (1986), The Volcano Lover (1992), and In America (1999). Sontag wrote extensively about literature, photography and media, culture, AIDS and illness, war, human rights, and leftist ideology. Her longtime partner was noted photographer Annie Leibovitz.
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Quote: “The aim of all commentary on art now should be to make works of art — and, by analogy, our own experience — more, rather than less, real to us. The function of criticism should be to show how it is what it is, even that it is what it is, rather than to show what it means.”
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