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It's a loving tribute to Susan Sontag and her brilliant writings about photography currently on display at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. In a smallish space not far from the grand staircase on the second floor, a generous selection of quotations from her seminal work, On Photography, along with 40 photographs from the Met's permanent collection shed light on a fair cross-section of her writings. While the show at times seems a bit of a hodgepodge (replete with requisite works by Diane Arbus, August Sander, Edward Weston et al.) it seems only proper that one of the great thinkers about this important medium deserves a proper and thought-provoking tribute at our largest museum. Pity though that with so many important shows on now at the Met—including the new Treasures of Sacred Maya Kings which I also found impressive yet odd in layout—that Sontag is relegated to a rather obscure corner of the museum. Such it goes with photography, perhaps.
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august sander, diane arbus, edward weston, met, on photography, susan sontag
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Posted on 6/19/2006
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