Susan Sontag at the Met

[tim atherton]

Anyone seen the show? Sounds interesting.

Good piece on it here:

http://villagevoice.com/art/0625,camhi,73559,13.html

Memento Mori
"All photographs are memento mori," Susan Sontag wrote in On Photography (1977), her groundbreaking collection of essays. So one could hardly imagine a more fitting memorial to the writer, who died two years ago, than this show of photographs organized around her reflections.... etc at above

[Daniel Otranto]

I wish the writer would be a bit more specific about what is actually in the show...

Theres some war photography from what I gather...I went to art school and her stuff was kinda drilled into our brains but it always seemed such redundant, go no where is the only where to go kind of thinking. War photography does nothing, ok I get it, so why dwell on it with a show? What did susan sontag actually like to think about and actually look at? Or are these war photographs that pass her test of being beyond machismo photojournalism?