"I'm sick to death of this particular self - I want another."

"No form of art goes beyond ordinary consciousness as film does, straight to our emotions, deep into the twilight room of the soul." – Ingmar Bergman not one and simple, but complex and many. english/español/русский

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Meryl Streep and Mike Nichols behind the scenes of Silkwood, 1983

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Cher and Meryl Streep on the set of Silkwood

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David Strathairn Appreciation: 

Wesley in Silkwood (1983)

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“Each time that one (that I) surrender to one’s vanities, each time that one thinks and lives for the sake of ‘appearing,’ one betrays…It is not necessary to deliver oneself to others, but only to those whom one loves. For then it is no longer delivering oneself in order to appear, but only in order to give. There is much more force in a man who appears only when he must. To go to the end, that means to know how to guard one’s secret. I have suffered from being alone, but in order to have kept my secret, I conquered the suffering of being alone. And today, I know no greater glory than to live alone and unknown.”

— Susan Sontag, Reborn: Early Diaries 1947-1963 [Undated]

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Susan Sontag, photos by Annie Leibovitz

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Umberto Eco and Susan Sontag listening to a talk by Roland Barthes, 1970s.

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Susan Sontag

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Susan Sontag and Philip Johnson tour the Seagram Building

c. 1965

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Sontag was wearing her trademark intellectual-diva outfit: voluminous black top and black silky slacks, accessorised with a number of exotic, billowy scarves. These she constantly adjusted or flung back imperiously over one shoulder, stopping now and then to puff on a cigarette or expel a series of phlegmy coughs. (The famous Sontag ‘look’ always put me in mind of the stage direction in Blithe Spirit: ‘Enter Madame Arcati, wearing barbaric jewellery.’) Somewhat incongruously, she had completed her ensemble with a pair of pristine, startlingly white tennis shoes. These made her feet seem comically huge, like Bugs Bunny’s. I half-expected her to bounce several feet up and down in the air whenever she took a step, like one of those people who have shoes made of ‘Flubber’ in the old Fred McMurray movie.

Desperately Seeking Susan by Terry Castle (via susan-sontag)

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Susan Sontag in screen test with Andy Warhol, 1964

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The rarest of the rare! Photos of Susan Sontag and her girlfriend, Cuban-American playwright Maria Irene Fornes. If the dates on the back are accurate, Susan would have been around 28 years old.

These were taken by Morton “Morty” Schleifer (Walter Kerell’s brother) and posted to LiveJournal by the user personalist in 2010.

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Paige Gratland, The Sontag: Feminist Hair Piece, 2004-2005

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By Henri Cartier-Bresson

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Regarding Susan Sontag (2014) dir. by Nancy D. Kates

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Susan Sontag et Bernard Pivot !

Photo Louis Monier

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Susan Sontag critiquing the homophobia and misogyny of Fidel Castro’s government in Conducta Impropria/Inappropriate Conduct (1984, Dir. Néstor Almendros and Orlando Jiménez Leal)

This was filmed 15 years after she wrote the optimistic essay “Some Thoughts on the Right Way (for us) to Love the Cuban Revolution.” A classic example of her shifting opinions; though one might argue that this isn’t a flip-flopping on Sontag’s part, but a response to a regime that flip-flopped.