Errol Morris on Susan Sontag

Errol Morris on Susan Sontag

Errol Morris writing for The New York Times:

“You mean to tell me that you went all the way to the Crimea because of one sentence written by Susan Sontag?” My friend Ron Rosenbaum seemed incredulous. I told him, “No, it was actually two sentences.”

The sentences are from Sontag’s “On Regarding the Pain of Others,” her last published book.

A really interesting “deconstruction” of Roger Fenton’s two “Valley of the Shadow of Death” photographs, taken during the Crimean War.