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When Susan Sontag recalled viewing Holocaust atrocity images at the age of 12 as a central moment shaping her own interest and later views on photography, she inaugurated an era of critique in which the violence of the camera was emphasized as elemental to the photographic endeavor.
23 de jun. de 2021 · Moreover, Sontag traced her personal interest in photographs of suffering (what she called an “inventory of horror”) back to seeing images of the Holocaust at the age of twelve. She wrote that “Nothing I have seen—in photographs or in real life— ever cut me as sharply, deeply, instantaneously.
Surviving Images: Holocaust Photographs and the Work of Postmemory. “One’s first encounter with the photographic inventory of ultimate horror is a kind of revelation,the prototypically modern revelation: a negative epiphany.
Two encounters, one described by Susan Sontag in 1973 in On Photography, the other by Alice Kaplan in French Lessons in 1993, twenty years later. Sontag was twelve in 1945 when she first saw those pictures, Kaplan was in third grade, eight or nine, in 1962 when she found them, in the desk of her father who had been a prosecutor at Nuremberg and ...
5 de oct. de 2006 · In the days after the death of Susan Sontag in December 2004, Annie Leibovitz began searching for photographs for a small book to be given out at the memorial service.
23 de may. de 2004 · Susan Sontag essay offers her reflections on torture of Iraqi prisoners by Americans at Abu Ghraib, and the photographs that have appeared of that torture; she observes that the horror of what...
Leibovitz's book opens with a picture of Sontag, back to the camera, dwarfed by the rock walls of Petra but emerging into the white open space before the temple.
