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...“It’s not easy to buy a vintage Richard Avedon print,” says Conor Masterson, co-owner of Ramsgate-based magazine archive Elegantly Papered....
...It is there in the pervasive dinner-party trope that, yes, Richard Dawkins is “right”, but must he be so beastly about it?...
...She talks about how she admired Richard Avedon — not a kind photographer, we agree — but, she says, “a true intellectual, a genius....
...His 100 standout moments include a spread in Junior Bazaar, November 1945, by Herman Landshoff (pictured), Edward Steichen’s surprisingly racy work for Vogue in the 1920s and Richard Avedon’s iconic 1965...
...Or Elton John in a Versace evening dress by Richard Avedon?...
...He’d just talk about politics with Susan Sontag,” he says. Baryshnikov moved on to reading “Walcott from St Lucia, and Seamus Heaney in Ireland, or Louise Glück, in the States, or Mark Strand”....
...Filled with a low-key ecstasy at quotidian beauty, these are photographs which, in the words of Susan Sontag, “confer on each moment the character of a mystery”....
...Just a few years ago the BBC reissued the accompanying book with a new forward by Richard Dawkins....
...Sara, in her black leggings, and her long, black hair with its distinctive Susan Sontag streak, is so funny and warm, with her slanting humour, and she teases her husband, fairly mercilessly, from a position...
...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...
...After prudently having himself circumcised, learning to speak fluent Arabic, dressing as an Afghan dervish and calling himself Mirza Abdullah, the British explorer Sir Richard Burton travelled to the holy...
...Susan Sontag famously called photography “the only art natively surreal”....
...Some are deemed sufficiently stellar to need no qualification (“Edward Gorey, Bob Gottlieb, Susan Sontag, Richard Poirier”); some are labelled like butterflies by a brief note either of achievement – “Mart...
...In essence, it is a very uninteresting attempt to transpose a Richard Curtis-style rom-com to eastern Europe. The two best films of the week, each receiving a limited release, are both reissues....
...He turned instead to experimental film-making, and maybe found relief in gazing at the young Susan Sontag, Dennis Hopper and Edie Sedgwick, who bewitched Warhol with her energy and stylish magnetism....
...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....
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