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Susan Sontag Quotes:

Ocupation: Writer

Life: January 16, 1933 - December 28, 2004

Birthday: January 16

Death: December 28

The tradition of portrait painting, to embellish or idealize the subject, remains the aim of everyday and of commercial photography, but it has had a much more limited career in photography considered as art. Generally speaking, the honors have gone to the Cordelias.

- Susan Sontag

source: Susan Sontag (2011). “On Photography”, p.93, Farrar, Straus and Giroux

topic: Photography, Art, Careers, Cordelia

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