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To a divided world, she brought a divided self. But if she herself was one with her age, her greatest theme stood apart from it. Aristotle had written that “metaphor consists in giving the thing a name that belongs to something else”; and Sontag showed how metaphor formed, and then deformed, the self; how language could console, and how it could destroy; how representation could comfort while also being obscene; why even a great interpreter ought to be against interpretation. And she warned against the mystifications of Photograph and portraits: including those of biographers.
Acknowledgments
Robert Ackerman
Joan Acocella
Max Aguilera-Hellweg
Vince Aletti
David Alexander
Jeff Alexander
Clifford Allen
Minda Rae Amiran
Benjamin Anastas
Jarosław Anders
Laurie Anderson
David Archer
Birgitta Ashoff
Helene Atwan
Paul Auster
Lila Azam Zanganeh
Blake Bailey
Izudin Bajrović
Eric Banks
Jeannette Montgomery Barron
Sabine Baumann
Maria Bedford
Pierre Bergé
Matthew Berry
Klaus Biesenbach
Kristal Bivona
Roger Black
Phillip Blumberg
Christopher Bollen
Ted Bonin
Dominique Bourgois
Robert Boyers
Marie Brenner
Paul Brown
Lauren Buisson
Noël Burch
Edward Burns
John Burns
Richmond Burton
Ian Buruma
Sarah Funke Butler
Carol Devine Carson
Bernardo Carvalho
Terry Castle
Patrizia Cavalli
Dale Cendali
Aida Cerkez
Evans Chan
Greg Chandler
Lucinda Childs
Suet Y. Chong
Bill Clegg
Jennifer Cohen
Judith Sontag Cohen
Jonas Cornell
Jonathan Cott
Edgardo Cozarinsky
Timothy Crouse
Samira Davet
Lynn Davis
Raffaella de Angelis
Sharon DeLano
Roger Deutsch
Janine di Giovanni
Paolo Dilonardo
Katrina Dodson
Rachel Donadio
Stephen Donadio
Bernard Donoughue
Jack Drescher
Pamela Druckerman
Marie-Christine Dunham Pratt
Ferida Duraković
Marion Duvert
Andrew Eccles
Martha Edelheit
Gösta Ekman
Agneta Ekmanner
Karla Eoff
Barbara Epler
Marilù Eustachio
Alicia Glekas Everett
Joyce Farber
Brenda Feigen
Bruno Feitler
Bob Fernandes
Edward Field
Walter Flegenheimer
Ben Fountain
Sharon Fountain
Edwin Frank
Hardy Frank
John Freeman
Jonathan Galassi
Oberto Gili
Todd Gitlin
Admir Glamočak
Misha Glenny
Allen Glicksman
Walter Goldfrank
Andrew Goldman
Bill Goldstein
Melissa Goldstein
Gloria Gonzalez
Kasia Gorska
Helen Graves
Glenn Greenwald
Kimble James Greenwood
Maxine Groffsky
Judith Spink Grossman
Genie Guerard
Judith Gurewich
David Guterson
Molly Haigh
Peter Hald
Daniel Halpern
Matthew Hamilton
Tayt Harlin
Erin Harris
Andrew Hay
Zoë Heller
Roger Hodge
Howard Hodgkin
Sid Holt
Glenn Horowitz
Richard Howard
Evan Hughes
Larry Husten
Tom Hyry
Gary Indiana
Tanja Jacobs
Jasper McNally Jackson
Tracey Jackson
Emma Janaskie
Lex Jansen
Arthur Japin
Jasper Johns
Una Jones
Bo Jonsson
Bill Josephson
Boris Kachka
David Kambhu
Rick Kantor
Mitchell Kaplan
Nancy Kates
Daniel Kellum
Karen Kennerly
Ademir Kenović
Eitan Kensky
Jamaica Kincaid
Alexis Kirschbaum
Jeffrey Kissel
Ann Kjellberg
Samuel Klausner
Gary Knight
Stephen Koch
Eva Kollisch
Senada Kreso
Michael Krüger
Maria José de Lancastre
Nicholas Latimer
Sarah Lazin
Claudio Leal
Dominique Lear
Fran Lebowitz
Hyosun Lee
Carol LeFlufy
Annie Leibovitz
Ivan Lett
Don Eric Levine
Phillip Lopate
Iris Love
Paul Lowe
Lisa Lucas
Tom Luddy
Carri Lyon
John R. MacArthur
Cassiano Elek Machado
Koukla MacLehose
Florence Malraux
Snežana Marić
Gene Marum
Lawrence Mass
Erroll McDonald
Larry McDonnel
Larry McMurtry
Sarah McNally
Lauren Mechling
Michelle Memran
Uwe Michel
Annette Michelson
Chrissy Milanese
Laura Miller
Peggy Miller
Vicente Molina Foix
Antonio Monda
Bob Monk
Ted Mooney
Honor Moore
Stephen Moran
Bertrand Moser
Blair Moser
Charles Moser
Jane Moser
Laura Moser
Siddhartha Mukherjee
Karen Mullarkey
Karen Mulligan
Michael Musto
Aryeh Neier
Cindy Nguyen
Minka Nijhuis
Ethel Nishiyama
Ann Northrop
Amy Novogratz
Sigrid Nunez
Geoffrey O’Brien
Lynda Rosen Obst
Lawrence Orenstein
Sheila O’Shea
Diana Ossana
Denise Oswald
Anita Oxburgh
Camille Paglia
Zoë Pagnamenta
Christina Pareigis
Haris Pašović
Antony Peattie
Gilles Peress
Russell Perreault
Peter Perrone
Julie Phillips
Darryl Pinckney
Linda Plochocki
Paulina Pobocha
Norman Podhoretz
Katha Pollitt
Miranda Popkey
Lucie Prinz
Miro Purivatra
James Purnell
Danny Rafinejad
David Randall
Atka Kafedzić Reid
Jessica Reifer
Mariel Reinoso Ingliso
Roger Richards
David Rieff
Joanna Robertson
Merrill Rodin
Gordon Rogoff
Michael Roloff
Carlin Romano
Corina Romonti
Jeff Roth
Philip Roth
Eric de Rothschild
Monique de Rothschild
Isabella Rozendaal
Tilla Rudel
Salman Rushdie
Kathy Ryan
Allison Saltzman
Josyane Savigneau
Daniel Schreiber
Oliver Schultz
Luiz Schwarcz
Maya Sela
Peter Sellars
Jeff Seroy
Mary Shanahan
Brenda Shaughnessy
Elizabeth Sheinkman
Michael Shnayerson
Elaine Showalter
Choire Sicha
Michelangelo Signorile
Michael Silverblatt
Robert Silvers
Charles Silverstein
Goran Simić
Sidney Sisk
Mats Skärstrand
Joseph Sonnabend
Miranda Spieler
Stephanie Steiker
Michael Stout
Oliver Strand
Luca Sueri
Béla Tarr
Ethan Taubes
Tanaquil Taubes
Meredith Tax
Adam Taylor
Benjamin Taylor
Mark Thompson
David Thomson
David Thorstad
Judith Thurman
Robert Toles
Melissa Tomjanovich
Simon Toop
Velibor Topić
Frederic Tuten
Raymond van den Boogaard
Marcel van den Brink
Janine van den Ende
Joop van den Ende
Ivo van Hove
Greg Villepique
Vincent Virga
Lauren Miller Walsh
Robert Walsh
Shelley Wanger
Steve Wasserman
Simon Watney
Paulo Werneck
Edmund White
Leon Wieseltier
Oceana Wilson
Robert Wilson
Christian Witkin
Annie Wright
Andrew Wylie
Mia You
Pjer Žalica
Giovannella Zannoni
Lloyd Ziff
Peter Zinoman
Terri Zucker
Harriet Sohmers Zwerling
To the New York Institute for the Humanities and the University of California, Los Angeles,
and to those who wished to remain anonymous
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