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Susan Sontag was a famous photographer who never even owned a selfie stick. Can you imagine?
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Thank you We sneak in temporary literature Susan son tagg
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ah la shmoop phyllis susan san tag Susan san Tag
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is a really famous american writer and artist She is
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really well respected by photographers journalists and also academics because
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her writing really beautifully but also really interestingly connects what
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happens in american art to what's happening in american life
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So her most well known essay collection is called on
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photography And in it she basically makes the argument that
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basically that seeing a lot of violence and brutality in
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different ways in photographs desensitize us to violence in our
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real lives What is susan suntech known for writing about
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