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