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Susan Sontag

1933 - 2004

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Susan Lee Sontag (; January 16, 1933 – December 28, 2004) was an American writer, critic, and public intellectual. She mostly wrote essays, but also published novels; she published her first major work, the essay "Notes on 'Camp' ", in 1964. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Susan Sontag has received more than 3,780,259 page views. Her biography is available in 66 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 65 in 2019). Susan Sontag is the 450th most popular writer (down from 358th in 2019), the 433rd most popular biography from United States (down from 345th in 2019) and the 42nd most popular American Writer.

Susan Sontag is most famous for her essays "Notes on 'Camp'" and "Notes on 'Camp' (Continued)," which are about the concept of camp.

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Notable Works

Styles of radical will
1969
The benefactor
1963
Against Interpretation
The remarkable and controversial study of the mind, life, and legend of Jean Genet
1966
Illness as metaphor
1978
On photography
1977
Death kit
1967
Illness as metaphor
AIDS (Disease), Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome, Cancer
1978
Death kit
Murderers, Fiction, American fiction (fictional works by one author)
1967
The benefactor
Dreams, Fiction, Fiction, psychological
1963
On photography
Artistic Photography, Fotografía artística, Philosophy
On Photography is a 1977 collection of essays by Susan Sontag. It originally appeared as a series of essays in the New York Review of Books between 1973 and 1977. In the book, Sontag expresses her views on the history and present-day role of photography in capitalist societies as of the 1970s. Sontag discusses many examples of modern photography, among these, she contrasts Diane Arbus's work with that of Depression-era documentary photography commissioned by the Farm Security Administration. ([Wikipedia][1]) [1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_Photography
1977
Styles of radical will
Cinema (Ensaios), American essays, American fiction
1969
Regarding the pain of others
Social aspects of War in art, Photojournalism, Social aspects
Twenty-five years after her classic On Photography, Susan Sontag returns to the subject of visual representations of war and violence in our culture today. How does the spectacle of the sufferings of others (via television or newsprint) affect us? Are viewers inured--or incited--to violence by the depiction of cruelty? In Regarding the Pain of Others, Susan Sontag takes a fresh look at the representation of atrocity--from Goya's The Disasters of War to photographs of the American Civil War, lynchings of blacks in the South, and the Nazi death camps, to contemporary horrific images of Bosnia, Sierra Leone, Rwanda, Israel and Palestine, and New York City on September 11, 2001. In Regarding the Pain of Others Susan Sontag once again changes the way we think about the uses and meanings of images in our world, and offers an important reflection about how war itself is waged (and understood) in our time.
2000
Regarding the pain of others
Social aspects of War in art, Photojournalism, Social aspects
Twenty-five years after her classic On Photography, Susan Sontag returns to the subject of visual representations of war and violence in our culture today. How does the spectacle of the sufferings of others (via television or newsprint) affect us? Are viewers inured--or incited--to violence by the depiction of cruelty? In Regarding the Pain of Others, Susan Sontag takes a fresh look at the representation of atrocity--from Goya's The Disasters of War to photographs of the American Civil War, lynchings of blacks in the South, and the Nazi death camps, to contemporary horrific images of Bosnia, Sierra Leone, Rwanda, Israel and Palestine, and New York City on September 11, 2001. In Regarding the Pain of Others Susan Sontag once again changes the way we think about the uses and meanings of images in our world, and offers an important reflection about how war itself is waged (and understood) in our time.
2000
Death kit
Murderers, Fiction, American fiction (fictional works by one author)
1967
The benefactor
Dreams, Fiction, Fiction, psychological
1963
On photography
Artistic Photography, Fotografía artística, Philosophy
On Photography is a 1977 collection of essays by Susan Sontag. It originally appeared as a series of essays in the New York Review of Books between 1973 and 1977. In the book, Sontag expresses her views on the history and present-day role of photography in capitalist societies as of the 1970s. Sontag discusses many examples of modern photography, among these, she contrasts Diane Arbus's work with that of Depression-era documentary photography commissioned by the Farm Security Administration. ([Wikipedia][1]) [1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_Photography
1977
Illness as metaphor
AIDS (Disease), Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome, Cancer
1978
Styles of radical will
Cinema (Ensaios), American essays, American fiction
1969

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Susan Sontag ranks 450 out of 7,302. Before her are Rudaki, Fausto Cercignani, Comte de Lautréamont, Ammianus Marcellinus, Karl Barth, and Gabriela Mistral. After her are Salvatore Quasimodo, Boris Vian, Wolfram von Eschenbach, Jack Kerouac, Jacques Hébert, and Héloïse.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1933, Susan Sontag ranks 21. Before her are Just Fontaine, Corazon Aquino, Nina Simone, Amartya Sen, Heinrich Rohrer, and Philip Roth. After her are Mako, Elinor Ostrom, Francisco Gento, Arno Allan Penzias, Jayne Mansfield, and Krzysztof Penderecki. Among people deceased in 2004, Susan Sontag ranks 15. Before her are Françoise Sagan, Princess Alice, Duchess of Gloucester, Czesław Miłosz, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Peter Ustinov, and Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan. After her are Prince Bernhard of Lippe-Biesterfeld, Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, Abdel Aziz al-Rantisi, Christopher Reeve, Akhmad Kadyrov, and Janet Leigh.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Susan Sontag ranks 433 out of 20,380. Before her are Ed Harris (1950), Shirley MacLaine (1934), Hugh Hefner (1926), Stephen Hillenburg (1961), Millard Fillmore (1800), and Lewis H. Morgan (1818). After her are Howard Gardner (1943), The Notorious B.I.G. (1972), J. Paul Getty (1892), Richard Widmark (1914), Jim Mattis (1950), and Albert Fish (1870).

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Among WRITERS In United States

Among writers born in United States, Susan Sontag ranks 42. Before her are Henry James (1843), Dan Brown (1964), Sylvia Plath (1932), Philip Roth (1933), Frank Herbert (1920), and Kurt Vonnegut (1922). After her are Jack Kerouac (1922), Eugene O'Neill (1888), Patricia Highsmith (1921), George R. R. Martin (1948), Robert A. Heinlein (1907), and Tom Clancy (1947).

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