" A 2008 essay characterized Sontag and Arbus as " Siamese twins of photographic art ," because they both struggled with photography as art versus documentation ( e. g., the relationship of photographer and subject ).

" Sontag ’ s Urbanity ," October 49, Summer 1989: 91-101.

To avoid confusion with fanclubs of the singer Henriette Sontag, the name was changed to " Tunnel over the Spree ," a topical reference to Isambard Kingdom Brunel's tunnel under the Thames, which would lead to an abortive effort to create a similar tunnel in Berlin.

Susan Sontag wrote an essay in 1973 entitled " Freak Show " that was critical of Arbus's work ; it was reprinted in her 1977 book On Photography as " America, Seen Through Photographs, Darkly.

Beginning with the publication of her 1964 essay " Notes on ' Camp '" Sontag became a life-long international cultural and intellectual celebrity.

In 1977, Sontag wrote the essay On Photography.

In her essay On Photography Sontag says that the evolution of modern technology has changed the viewer in three key ways.

Sontag continued to theorize about the role of photography in real life in her essay " Looking at War: Photography's View of Devastation and Death " which appeared in the December 9th, 2002 issue of The New Yorker.

In a 1977 essay, Susan Sontag noted that these photographs of Lei Feng's good deeds " depict scenes in which, clearly, no photographer could have been present.

A tolerant but detached enjoyment of the aesthetic characteristics that are inherent in naive, unconscious and honest bathos is an element of the camp sensibility, as first analyzed by Susan Sontag, in a 1964 essay " Notes on camp ".

The artifice of such scenes led Susan Sontag to identify Scopitone films as " part of the canon of Camp " in her 1964 essay " Notes on ' Camp '.

" Notes on " Camp "" is a well-known essay by Susan Sontag organized around fifty-eight numbered theses.

The essay created a literary sensation and brought Sontag her first brush with intellectual notoriety.

In her famous 1974 essay " Fascinating Fascism ", Susan Sontag lamented that " The purification of Leni Riefenstahl's reputation of its Nazi dross has been gathering momentum for some time, but it has reached some kind of climax this year, with Riefenstahl the guest of honor at a new cinéphile-controlled film festival held in the summer in Colorado ….

Along with several dozen then-prominent writers and political activists ( including James Baldwin, Jules Feiffer, Norman Mailer, Susan Sontag and Gloria Steinem ) he signed the Violence in Oakland essay, condemning police violence against Black Panther Party members in Oakland, California on April 6, 1968 ( violence that included the killing of 17-year-old Bobby Hutton and the wounding of Eldridge Cleaver ).

The most notable application of flâneur to street photography probably comes from Susan Sontag in her 1977 essay, On Photography.

Susan Sontag argued in her 1964 Notes on " Camp " that camp was an attraction to the human qualities which expressed themselves in " failed attempts at seriousness ", the qualities of having a particular and unique style, and of reflecting the sensibilities of the era.

A 2009 article pointed out that Arbus had photographed Sontag and her son in 1965, thereby causing one to " wonder if Sontag felt this was an unfair portrait.

Sontag was often photographed and her image became widely recognized even in mainstream society.

Seven years later, her mother married Nathan Sontag.

Upon completing her Chicago degree, Sontag taught freshman English at the University of Connecticut for the 1951-52 academic year.

After completing her master of arts in philosophy and beginning doctoral research into metaphysics, ethics, Greek philosophy and Continental philosophy and theology at Harvard, Sontag was awarded an American Association of University Women's fellowship for the 1957-1958 academic year to St Anne's College, Oxford, where she had classes with Iris Murdoch, J. L. Austin, Stuart Hampshire and others.

Sontag remarked that her time in Paris was, perhaps, the most important period of her life.

While working on her fiction, Sontag taught philosophy at Sarah Lawrence College and City University of New York and the philosophy of Religion under Jacob Taubes in the Religion Department at Columbia University from 1960 to 1964.

Sontag held a writing fellowship at Rutgers University for 1964 to 1965 before ending her relationship with academia in favour of full-time, freelance writing.

At age 67, Sontag published her final novel In America ( 2000 ).

The last two novels were set in the past, which Sontag said gave her greater freedom to write in the polyphonic voice.

Sontag introduced this discussion by telling her own story of the first time she saw images of horrific human experience.

Sontag argues that there was no good to come from her seeing these images as a young girl, before she fully understood what the holocaust was.

For Sontag the viewing of these images has left her a degree more numb to any following horrific image she viewed, as she had been desensitized.

In On the pain of others Sontag describes the book as ' photography as shock therapy ' that was designed to ' horrify and demoralize '.

The philosopher Herbert Marcuse lived with Sontag and Rieff for a year while working on his book Eros and Civilization.

In more than one book, Sontag wrote about cultural attitudes toward illness.

After Sontag's death, Newsweek published an article about Leibovitz that made clear reference to her decade-plus relationship with Sontag, stating: " The two first met in the late ' 80s, when Leibovitz photographed her for a book jacket.

Susan Sontag ended her last book, Regarding the Pain of Others ( 2003 ), with a long, laudatory discussion of one of them, Dead Troops Talk ( A Vision After an Ambush of a Red Army Patrol near Moqor, Afghanistan, Winter 1986 ) ( 1992 ), calling Wall's Goya-influenced depiction of a made-up event " exemplary in its thoughtfulness and power.

The book precipitated a controversy when Sontag was accused of having plagiarized other works about Modjeska.

Blind Man's Bluff: The Untold Story of American Submarine Espionage ( ISBN 0-06-103004-X ), published in 1998 by Sherry Sontag, Christopher Drew, and Annette Lawrence Drew, is a non-fiction book about U. S. Navy submarine operations during the Cold War.

Sontag was accused of plagiarism by Ellen Lee, who discovered at least twelve passages in the 387-page book that were similar to passages in four other books about Modjeska, including a novel by Willa Cather.

In the book, Sontag expresses her views on the history and present-day role of photography in capitalist societies as of the 1970s.

Even Susan Sontag, who had written the introduction to the English translation of the book version of Hitler: A Film from Germany, was reportedly shocked by some of his later statements, though she claimed that her feelings about his films were unaffected.

Paglia mentions several criticisms of Sontag, including Harold Bloom's comment on Paglia's doctoral dissertation, of " Mere Sontagisme!

" Paglia also describes Sontag as a " sanctimonious moralist of the old-guard literary world ", and tells of a visit by Sontag to Bennington College, in which she arrived hours late, ignored the agreed-upon topic of the event, and made an incessant series of ridiculous demands.