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...thoughtful and rigorous to be called nostalgic. But some of their poignancy comes from the paradox of their making. The replicated image and its mechanical multiplication of fact slowly wore down 19th century romanticism and moved irony to the center of modernist culture. The camera, as Critic Susan Sontag pointed out, makes us tourists, not just in Yosemite, but within all reality. With Adams, however, the camera became the romantic's last defense. There was no irony. What you felt?scrupulously and with great technical skill?is what...
...help they can get. There is, of course, a long history of the artist as freak and invalid: Plato's ideas of divine mania; Philoctetes, the archer of Greek mythology, whose festering wounds made him unfit company; 19th century Romanticism with its conspicuous consumptives; more recently, Susan Sontag's musing on the literary uses of cancer in Illness as Metaphor...
...least one honorary usually goes to a literary figure, and Lillian Hellman, the playwright and novelist, seems like a top contender, while Susan Sontag, literary critic and aesthete, may also place...
Willibald Sontag Koblenz, West Germany
Students frequently check out novels on the Vietnam war, such as "Going After Cacciato" by Tim O'Brien and books by women authors such as "On Photography" by Susan Sontag, Jane R. Morhardt, assistant librarian at Lamont Library, said last week...