Robert Mapplethorpe
Susan Sontag

Susan Sontag

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Susan Sontag
Susan Sontag
CultureAmerican
Titles
  • Susan Sontag
Date1984
MediumGelatin silver print
DimensionsImage: 15 × 15 in. (38.1 × 38.1 cm)
Sheet: 20 × 16 in. (50.8 × 40.6 cm)
Mount: 20 × 16 in. (50.8 × 40.6 cm)
Credit LineGift of the Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation in honor of Anne Wilkes Tucker on the occasion of her retirement
Object number2015.214
Not on view

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Department
Photography
Object Type
DescriptionThe profoundly influential essayist and activist Susan
Sontag wrote about “camp” and war, illness and AIDS, art and—above
all—photography. She was a special friend of Mapplethorpe and wrote an essay
for his book Certain People: A Book of
Portraits
(1985), which included his image of her.

ProvenanceThe artist, d. 1989; The Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation, Inc., New York; given to MFAH, 2015.

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