Susan Sontag "On Photography"

New York, NY —

The Metropolitan Museum of Art opens a new photographic exhibit today, which is a tribute to the late writer and critic Susan Sontag. The show takes it's name from her 1977 groundbreaking collection, "On Photography." Work by Robert Capa, Diane Arbus, Walker Evans and others are matched with text from those essays and from Sontag's last book, Regarding the Pain of Others.

In 2003, a year before her death at age 71, Sontag spoke with Studio 360 host Kurt Anderson about the evolution of her ideas about how we look at photos of war and disaster. She said she'd been thinking about some reigning cliches.