#susan sontag on photography

[celluloidwickerman]

Presence, or Polaroid Ghosts (Part 3)

Part 2 ‘We were here, too, once and please take care of us for a while.’ ‘With digital technology,’ wrote memoirist Annie Ernaux, ‘we drained reality dry.’ As digital creatures, we carry out an endless taxidermy upon our experiences in the ever frenzied pursuit of content. Ernaux’s poignant criticism echoes Susan Sontag’s earlier weariness at what cameras had done to our ability to simply…

[365filmsbyauroranocte]

Oh, Canada (Paul Schrader, 2024)

[namedvesta]

“I feel profoundly alone, cut off, unattractive...   I feel unloveable. But I respect that unloveable soldier — struggling to survive, struggling to be honest, just, honourable. I respect myself.”

Susan Sontag, As Consciousness is Harnessed to Flesh: Journals and Notebooks, 1964-1980.

Diane Arbus, “Susan Sontag alone on a bed. N.Y.C.𝟣𝟫𝟨𝟧.”

[onenakedfarmer]

SUSAN SONTAG On Photography

For [Diane] Arbus, both freaks and Middle America were equally exotic: a boy marching in a pro-war parade and a Levittown housewife were as alien as a dwarf or a transvestite; lower-middle-class suburbia was as remote as Times Square, lunatic asylums, and gay bars. Arbus's work expressed her turn against what was public (as she experienced it), conventional, safe, reassuring--and boring--in favor of what was private, hidden, ugly, dangerous, and fascinating. These contrasts, now, seem almost quaint. What is safe no long monopolizes public imagery. The freakish is no longer a private zone, difficult of access. People who are bizarre, in sexual disgrace, emotionally vacant are seen daily on the newsstands, on TV, in the subways. Hobbesian man roams the streets, quite visible, with glitter in his hair.

[nobeerreviews]

The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people’s reality, and eventually in one’s own.

-- Susan Sontag

(Madrid)

[sentientglue]

attempting to romanticise my silly little academic side quest to articulate the pursuit of a single original thought (writing a phd research proposal)

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(づ￣ ³￣)づ 昨天我的紋身🌸一朵花女兒來工作室與我午餐約會，並且我們談論"自助旅行"、"電子書 & e閱讀器"和"手工藝-她的鉤針課"等等豐富的話題 My tattoo 🌸 a flower adorable daughter came to the studio for a lunch date with me on yesterday, and we talked about "self-guided tour / independent travel ", "e-books & eReader(Readers)" and "handicrafts-her crochet classes" and other rich topics.

想要敗壞青年最有效的方法就是教導他更尊重那些和他想法相同的人，而非那些想法不同的人。

The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.

─ Friedrich Nietzsche 尼采

👇 Daughter her first classes on crochet classes  ◠‿◠ A good beginning~*

👆 I made it when I lived in winter northen USA the day before christmas-Eve years ago and The nuts were picked up from the forest during walks. ლ(╹ε╹ლ)

and

吃 吃 吃 lol She wants bread, I had roasted stone corn. 😋 yummy~*

My daughter she bought this e-book for me.

Ⓢ Ⓤ Ⓟ Ⓔ Ⓡ ＼(｡✪‿✪｡) ／Thanks xoxo

Sometimes we would exchange books to read. And we also got the same mind that some books are better to read in original paper form than as e-books. 🙌 😄

論攝影 On Photography , 1977.

蘇珊‧桑塔格(Susan Sontag)

桑塔格作品集

譯者：黃燦然

出版社：麥田出版社

「一張照片不只是一次事件與一名攝影者遭遇的結果；

拍照本身就是一次事件，而且是一次擁有更霸道的權利的事件──干預、入侵或忽略正在發生的無論什麼事情。」

—— 桑塔格 Susan Sontag

[journalette]

february’s read: on photography by susan sontag

[woundgallery]

Susan Sontag and Peter Hujar en Perfect lovers. Art in the time of AIDS.  Show of the ART AIDS Foundation en Fundació Suñol. Barcelona.

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alison oliver via instagram

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"In the water" : Sensuality/Solitude. Pinhole Photography/ Floating Camera. #1 by Russell Moreton Via Flickr: russellmoreton.blogspot.co.uk/ In Defence of Sensuality : John Cowper Powys 1930. Foreword. The author feels that perhaps some explanation is due to the reader for the rather unusual employment of the word "Sensuality" which serves as the title of this work. The advantage given to the author by the use of this particular expression is that it enables him to proceed from rock-bottom upwards as far as he likes. A more refined title would have cut him off, in his method of developing his idea, from the physical roots of existence; for while it is easy to indicate the overtones and undertones of Sensuality it would be hard to bring a gentle, vague word, like the word "sensuousness" down to the bare, stark, stoically-stripped Life-Sensation which is the subject of this book. J.C.P. Dedicated to the memory of that great and much-abused man Jean-Jacques Rousseau Solitude. Susan Sontag, one of the most influential intellectuals and cultural critics of the 20th century, was known for her sharp insights into art, culture, and human experience. Her quote on eloquence and its relationship to solitude reveals her understanding of language and its connection to the individual's inner world. Sontag believed that the ability to speak well, to articulate thoughts clearly and compellingly, was not something innate or natural, but rather a product of isolation. In a society dominated by communal life—whether in families, groups, or communal settings—people often resorted to simpler forms of expression. According to Sontag, it was in solitude and separation from the crowd that a person could truly cultivate eloquence, as it was within these moments of isolation that individuals could confront their thoughts deeply and express them with clarity. Sontag's ideas about language were shaped by her larger body of work, which frequently examined the intersections of personal identity, social constructs, and the human condition. She explored the impact of isolation on creativity and individuality in many of her writings, such as in her groundbreaking essays on photography, film, and literature. For Sontag, eloquence was a sign of a developed, introspective mind that was not afraid to challenge the status quo. The "painful individuality" she referred to pointed to the existential cost of being alone, but also the creative freedom it afforded. It was through solitude that one could experience a more authentic form of self-expression, not shaped by societal expectations or norms, but born from the individual’s own inner dialogue. Her reflections on solitude, art, and language have continued to influence generations of thinkers and artists. Sontag's assertion that "thinking in words" is something derived from solitude offers an important insight into the nature of creativity and communication. In an increasingly interconnected world, where groupthink and collective experiences often dominate, Sontag's ideas remind us of the power of individual thought and the transformative potential of solitude. Her work continues to resonate today, especially for those who seek to find their voice in a world filled with noise and distraction.

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on photography, susan sontag

[avatar-state-kate]

RIP Susan Sontag you would have written the greatest critique of Alex garlands civil war (2024)

[fallensapphires]

Objects: Old Fashioned Cameras (2/?)

The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people's reality, and eventually in one's own.

[nobeerreviews]

But the landscape of devastation is still a landscape. There is beauty in ruins.

-- Susan Sontag

(Aiud, Romania)