080322 | A photograph I love by Diane Arbus

Photo by Diane Arbus
Susan Sontag with her son David Rieff photographed by Diane Arbus in 1965.
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Rieff writing about Sontag in his recent book Swimming in a Sea of Death:
“If I don’t believe in my own work,” she once said to me after one of her books had received a particularly disdainful review from a writer who made much of how seriously my mother took herself, “why should anyone else?”




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