Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/12/28

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Subject: [Leica] Susan Sontag
From: jefferys at gmail.com (Jeffery Smith)
Date: Tue Dec 28 13:47:03 2004
References: <1104264930.41d1bee22fbf3@webmail.mit.edu> <6.1.0.6.2.20041228122625.05e2e8b0@192.168.100.42> <6.1.2.0.0.20041228133335.01d89298@mail.comcast.net> <6.1.2.0.0.20041228133753.01dc5ce8@mail.comcast.net>

Her name has been used in the same sentence as "philosopher". I picked
up her book on photography, but haven't read it yet. It got bumped to
second place over Steinbeck's Russian Journal on the last plane
flight.

I guess I will miss her like I will miss Norman Mailer, who is still
alive. I think.

Jeffery


On Tue, 28 Dec 2004 13:38:37 -0700, ernie nitka <enitka1@comcast.net> wrote:
> ON second thought I can say a few bad things about the dead - here's a few
> select quotes for us to ponder:
> 
> http://enitka.com/sontagsayings.html
> 
> ernie
> 
> At 01:35 PM 12/28/2004, you wrote:
> >Richard - let me see which one I have at home - if you want it I can mail
> >it to you for the cost of postage - I have never been a fan but of course
> >I can't speak poorly of the dead
> >
> >ernie
> >
> >enitka1@comcast.net
> >
> >At 01:28 PM 12/28/2004, you wrote:
> >>Hmm... again, as late starter on this sort of stuff, I often hear
> >>criticisms of her writings but actually haven't read anything by her yet.
> >>So if I were to jump in with both feet, which one of her books is the
> >>most controversial (for good reasons)?
> >>
> >>At 12:15 PM 12/28/2004, B D Colen wrote:
> >>
> >>>ELowi just informed us of the death of S. Sontag, writing -
> >>>"Love her or hate her, she died today at 71."
> >>>
> >>>Pedantic, self-important, at times so far off-base she wasn't even on
> >>>the field.
> >>>And yet at times so brilliantly insightful one cannot escape reading 
> >>>her.
> >>>
> >>>I don't know that she will be missed. But she will be remembered.
> >>
> >>// richard (This email is for mailing lists. To reach me directly, please
> >>use richard at imagecraft.com)
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Replies: Reply from enitka1 at comcast.net (ernie nitka) ([Leica] Susan Sontag)
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