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...Town, a consumer off-shoot of the trade magazine The Tailor & Cutter, is another sought-after men’s style title published in the ’50s and ’60s, with early photography by Brian Duffy and David Bailey....
...The exhibition was restaged last September by David Zwirner and Fraenkel galleries at Zwirner’s West 20th Street space in New York City....
...Through the 1970s and ’80s, she squabbles with Susan Sontag, kisses Kathy Acker and is interviewed by Barbara Walters....
...It is a terrific-looking show, with a hint of David Lynch in its theatrically spot-lit red velvet curtains and dark rooms, and the exhibits are, from the first moment, the absolute lodestones of the movement...
...That prohibition has been flouted, notably when Susan Sontag directed the play in Sarajevo during the Bosnian war, also cutting the second act....
...’s On Photography, but she is also the Ukrainian voice for the likes of Henry David Thoreau, Julian Barnes, Kate Atkinson, Paul Auster and Don DeLillo....
...The collection included paintings by David Salle and Donald Baechler. A David Salle recently sold for nearly $1m....
...She raged, with greater cause, at her son David for his ignorance....
...You’d have done better to talk to someone like Susan Sontag, she was a wonderful talker — but we’ll do our best here.”...
...Peter Burke’s The Polymath (Yale RRP£20, May) is subtitled “A Cultural History from Leonardo da Vinci to Susan Sontag”. Does anyone else find that a strange pairing of names?...
...At the same time, he taps into a more contemporary phenomenon — the rise of the “lyric essay”, a hybrid of memoir, prose poetry and cultural criticism that the American polemicist David Shields, among others...
...With The Friend — Nunez’s eighth book (she’s the author of six previous novels and the wonderful Sempre Susan: A Memoir of Susan Sontag) — she’s found the perfect pitch....
...Yet he formed deep bonds with those he managed not to drive away: drag performer Ethyl Eichelberger, writer Susan Sontag, artist David Wojnarowicz, and those companions who learned to return fire or accept...
...At every step of the treatment she refused to countenance the end, but submitted instead to the “torture” (as her son David Rieff later called it) of radiation burns, lesions and hair loss....
...Ms Leibovitz described the project as a work in progress, recalling the moment Susan Sontag, the writer with whom she collaborated on the book of the first exhibition in 1999, suggested the theme of women...
...In 2004, she lost her long-time companion Susan Sontag, and both her parents died soon after. She accumulated mountains of debt and a wave of lawsuits. Pilgrimage claws towards a kind of redemption....
...The video of the lyrebird, by the way, is narrated by David Attenborough....
...Dan Sontag, who joined Merrill in 1978 and rose to become head of its global wealth management unit, has joined the Focus board of directors....
...Though the audience learns the basic facts of Sontag’s life – teenage schooling at Berkeley and the University of Chicago; marriage at 17 to sociologist Philip Rieff; motherhood at 19 with the birth of David...
...Sontag, in Regarding the Pain of Others, refers to Matthew Brady moving corpses around in his photographs of the American civil war as a form of “cheating”....
...As Consciousness is Harnessed to Flesh: Diaries 1964-1980, by Susan Sontag, Hamish Hamilton, RRP£18.99 The second of three instalments of Sontag’s notebooks, edited by her son David Rieff and covering...
...I wonder whether this experience made Ingrams sympathise with David Cameron and his family, when their son Ivan – who was born with the same condition complicated by Ohtahara syndrome, a very rare form of...
...“If a novel is concerned with numerous voices,” he writes, “an essay is a monologue, a form of direct speech, and a whisper at that …It can be as intellectual as Roland Barthes, Adam Phillips or Susan Sontag...
...Susan Sontag famously called photography “the only art natively surreal”....
...Reborn: Early Diaries 1947-1964 By Susan SontagEdited by David Rieff Hamish Hamilton £16.99, 318 pages FT Bookshop price: £13.59 In the preface to Susan Sontag’s early diaries, her son David Rieff says...
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