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Visited the exhibit at the Met. If you're in NYC, it is very much worth a visit. It starts with some historical context on the invention of the idea and then moves onto how it has been realized in fashion.

Susan Sontag's "Notes on Camp" provides a sort of through-line

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2019-06-04

"How can I describe my life to you? I think a lot, listen to music. I'm fond of flowers."
— Susan Sontag

(Illustration by Katherine Killeffer)

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2019-05-31

“Susan Sontag was asked what she had learned from the Holocaust, and she said that 10% of any population is cruel, no matter what, and that 10% is merciful, no matter what, and that the remaining 80% could be moved in either direction”
~ Kurt Vonnegut

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2019-05-07

"The hallmark of Camp is the spirit of extravagance.” – Susan Sontag, 1964

One-month countdown! "Camp: Notes on Fashion" opens May 9. https://t.co/kCOIgLWQPd

📸: Ensemble, Bertrand Guyon for House of Schiaparelli. Courtesy of Schiaparelli. © Johnny Dufort, 2019.

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2019-04-10

My OC, Sontag!
My dream is to be able to say "this is Sontag" and not explain she is an OC... Because everyone will just know...

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2019-04-02

“How can I describe my life to you? I think a lot, listen to
music. I’m fond of flowers”

Susan Sontag

Photography © Joanna Pallaris

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2019-02-27

gangster oc stuff - Juno & Sontag are lovers but also the bosses of rival gangs... They're eventually forced to go to war for the sake of their respective organizations, despite still caring about each other.

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2019-02-18

juno & sontag vampire au (^: sontag belongs to
(sorry i repost)

inspired by this song: https://t.co/sdZvq4eDcr

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2018-10-30

Including Francoise Sagan, Georges Simenon, Susan Sontag, Salman Rushdie and Eric Hobsbawm.

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2018-03-06

Really Mesmerizing animation of Die Young by Jerome Sontag Thanks

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2018-01-05

I must change my life so that I can live it, not wait for it. —Susan Sontag

artwork by Hirotaka Tanaka

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2017-12-11

“We would be glad of the world, if we were flying to it for refuge.”

Susan Sontag

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2017-11-03

"I urge you to be as impudent as you dare. BE BOLD, BE BOLD, BE BOLD."—#SusanSontag, art by

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2017-01-18

“Nothing is mysterious, no human relation. Except love.” Susan Sontag' on love, illustrated https://t.co/VkCGo7VKFh

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2016-05-28

Great writers' advice on writing — Vonnegut, Sontag, Bradbury, Hemingway, Didion, and more https://t.co/F9JIesZDeH

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2016-03-03

Susan Sontag
Photography

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2016-02-17

It's sensational thinker and writer, Susan Sontag! (gorgeous illustration by the talented )

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2015-09-10

Chantal Joffe, Susan Sontag, 2014. Oil on board, 8 1/4 × 11 1/8 x 3/8 inches

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2015-04-29