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...Sontag postponed her Halloween appearance because of unexpected scheduling conflicts, Matthew A. Clark '81, secretary of the Harvard Advocate, said yesterday...
...Susan Sontag, author of "Illness as Metaphor" and "On Photography," will read from her new book, "I, Etcetera," in Science Center A on November 28, at 8 p.m., about a month later than announced...
...Sontag will appear as part of the Fall Reading Series being sponsored by the Advocate. Past speakers include John Hawkes, author of "Blood Oranges" and Vance Bourjaily, author of "Now Playing at Canterbury...
...show abounds in deliberately "poetic" photographs, over which surrealism?which, one is I reminded, Susan Sontag claims to be the natural mode of photographic vision?presides. Some are deliberately manipulated montages, like Jerry N. Uelsmann's dream pictures. Others are plain sights deliberately set up, like Ralph Gibson's The Enchanted Hand, 1969?a delicately ectoplastic fantasy, very much in the spirit of Joseph Cornell. Some photographs are manifestly the product of chance, an incongruous moment caught in flight. The most startling of these is Mark Cohen's Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, June 1975, which shows a girl's head almost...
After Susan Sontag's intricate cerebrations on photography, Maude Pratt's observations seem like flash cubes going off at Disney World. "Photography lied and mistook light for fact." "Ubiquity -that's what photography's all about. Locomotion. Not thought-action." And, "I began to doubt that photography was an art. It was a way of life, the best vocation for a single gal to get out and meet people, find a husband, make a few bucks. 'I want to be a photographer' was a plea for love...