Hints and tips:
...Susan Sontag called the camera a predatory weapon, and certainly hopes for progress thread throughout, from Fenton and Stieglitz to Cartier-Bresson and Ghasemi....
...Ignatieff (Afghanistan and Iraq wars), Christopher Hitchens (Afghanistan, Iraq) or Susan Sontag (Bosnia) — when she wasn’t romanticising revolutionary violence in China and Vietnam....
...To argue for LA as a walking city is to exude all the good sense of Michael Douglas as he deserts his car for a vigilante odyssey from Lincoln Heights to Venice....
...For four decades, a parking garage, festering and fetid, in Chelsea, a neighbourhood in Manhattan, drew crowds that included Andy Warhol, Susan Sontag, Catherine Deneuve, Michael Jackson, art dealers, junk...
...In 1978, Susan Sontag, the late US writer, objected to descriptions of sickness as battles because they “assign to the ill the ultimate responsibility both for falling ill and for getting well”....
...Michael Halpern combined the glamorous feathered and sequinned evening clothes that are his four-year-old label’s bread and butter with silky tailored separates — and shot them on front-line workers....
...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?...
...Like 2005’s Odyssey (which included the writer Susan Sontag’s first and last foray into writing song lyrics, an anti-war number), it is a richly enjoyable piece of work....
...So many people keep evoking September 11 that I invariably think back to what Susan Sontag said after that catastrophe: “Let’s by all means grieve together. But let’s not be stupid together.”...
...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....
...philanthropists Daniel and Joanna Rose; Joanna was for many years chair of Partisan Review, the US political and literary quarterly which, before it closed in 2003, published writers from George Orwell to Susan Sontag...
...Gagosian’s catalogue reprints Susan Sontag’s 1995 essay on the artist, ending “there is heroism in the vehemence and lack of irony in Hodgkin’s pictures....
...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...
...And men like Malcolm Muggeridge, Michael Foot, A.J.P. Taylor, Graham Greene, Evelyn Waugh … were kind of heroes to Christopher Booker and Paul Foot and myself....
...Susan Sontag famously called photography “the only art natively surreal”....
...Critic Susan Sontag articulated this assumption in her influential monograph, On Photography (1977): “A photograph is not only an image (as a painting is an image), an interpretation of the real; it is also...
...But Michael Schroeder’s film has fun being cine-geeky....
...He dealt there with monomaniac Michael Cimino of Heaven’s Gate, but quit when the studio collapsed, beggared by that western’s failure....
...Here the boy is Emmet (Michael Welch), the object of his desire the eponymous Mandy (Amber Heard); after the brutal prologue, the action quickly moves forward a few months and, before anyone can even start...
...The showcase of superb art-writing here - Julian Barnes, Susan Sontag, Alan Hollinghurst - explores mind, body, class, travel, paint and history in Hodgkin’s work....
...He told the story of Susan Sontag taking Waiting for Godot to Sarajevo and said “they needed that to keep alive....
...This may be the point some critics have tried to make about Michael Moore....
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