SUSAN SONTAG. SEHEN UND GESEHEN WERDEN
In our words:
The exhibition "Susan Sontag. See and be seen" presents one of the sharpest thinkers of our time: critical, uncompromising and political. The focus is on her influential theses on photography, her commitment to queer culture and her courageous life between illness, a passion for film and social resistance.
In the organizer's words:
Susan Sontag has worked intensively with visual media her entire life. She recognized the decisive influence of photography in our media-driven society and formulated as early as 1977 in On Photography - her most widely distributed book - that the act of photographing is more than just passive observation. In view of the massive proliferation of war and atrocity photographs in times of globalization, the urgency of her warning against the dangers of visual blunting increased once again in her 2003 book Das Leiden anderer betrachten .
The exhibition Susan Sontag. Seeing and Being Seen focuses on precisely these reflections on photography and traces Sontag's theories and thoughts on the subject. However, her preoccupation with queer culture, the discrimination of people infected with HIV and her own cancer are not left unmentioned. Sontag is also shown in her role as a film enthusiast and director, not least to portray her as an independent woman who rebelled against society throughout her life.
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Free admission up to 18 years, with free ELLAH Card even up to 25 years
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