Probably the most interesting part of the conversation between John Berger and Susan Sontag because its topic is dreams, which, as we know, Sontag has always had a lot to say about [1983]
'MEMORIAL TO 418 PALESTINIAN VILLAGES WHICH WERE DESTROYED, DEPOPULATED AND OCCUPIED BY ISRAEL IN 1948' [2001] is a work by Palestinian artist Emily Jacir [born 1972], featuring a refugee tent embroidered with the names of Palestinian villages impacted by Israeli expansion
André Breton, Marcel Duchamp, Max Ernst [behind Morris Hirshfield's 'Nude at a Window'], and Leonora Carrington at Peggy Guggenheim's, 1942 [photo by Herman Landshoff]
Felix Guattari and his wife Josephine and friend at the Kiev Restaurant, Lower East Side, NYC, January 2, 1987, after visit with Peter Orlovsky at Bellevue Hospital [photo by Allen Ginsberg]
Rosa Luxemburg, Simone de Beauvoir, and Emma Goldman [I always enjoy looking at this photo because it reinforces my belief that intelligent women smoke: either cigarettes, weed or a pipe]
Pier Paolo Pasolini meets with Ezra Pound in Venice in October 1967 and reads his poems to him, among them, a poem with a famous line: "I make a pact with you, Ezra Pound: / I have hated you now for too long. / I come to you as a grown son / Who had a hard-headed father"
In 1969, Susan Sontag and Agnès Varda sat down together while promoting their films 'Duet for Cannibals' and 'Lions Love'. Here they discuss the characters in Varda's film 'Lions Love [...and Lies]', which is a portrait of American counterculture