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Sontag on photography5/18/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() Sontag herself was wary of the impulse to anoint. What need does such a presence and performance satisfy? ![]() What is intriguing about Sontag is less who she was than how we understand our desire for her, or someone like her, to occupy a rare position in American literary culture: that of a dark-haired, dark-eyed, apparently invulnerable woman capable of transforming intellectual seriousness into an erotic spectacle. The fascination of Sontag lies in her endurance as a cultural icon, the model of how a woman should think and write in public, even though her thinking and writing weren’t very rigorous. ![]()
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