All That Gab
James Wolcott: The Upsides of Sontag’s Downsides, 24 October 2019
Sontag: Her Life
by Benjamin Moser.
Allen Lane, 832 pp., £30, September 2019,978 0 241 00348 0 Show More
by Benjamin Moser.
Allen Lane, 832 pp., £30, September 2019,
“... Sontag magnetised the camera her entire career, a watchful muse and Medusa starer in portraits by Peter Hujar (whose photographs line the inside cover of Moser’s book like a wall of publicity stills), Diane Arbus, Richard Avedon, Robert Mapplethorpe, and, later, her partner Annie Leibovitz. Sontag’s post-cancer skunk-stripe hair made her instantly ... ”
