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PHOTOGRAPHY
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Susan Sontag is an essayist and novelist. She has studied at Berkeley, Harvard, Ox
ford, and the Sorbonne and considers herself a writer without specialization. Among
her books are several works of criticism, Against Interpretation, On Photography,
AIDS and Its Metaphors, as well as a novel, The Volcano, and a play, Alice in Bed.
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EARLY PHOTOJOURNALISM
Ulrich Keller
Ulrich Keller is a professor in the department of art history at the Univesity of Califor
nia at Santa Barbara and an adjunct curator of photography at the University of Cali
fornia at Santa Barbara Art Museum.