Camp (style)
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Camp is an aesthetic and sensibility that regards something as appealing or amusing because of its heightened level of artifice, affectation, and exaggeration, especially when there is also a playful
Carmen Miranda in the trailer for The Gang's All Here (1943)
Clothing designs from Camp: Notes on Fashion
Several melodrama films, like Douglas Sirk's Written on the Wind (1956), have acquired cult status because of their unintentional camp content.
Cher at Farewell Tour
Susan Sontag
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Susan Lee Sontag was an American writer and critic. She primarily wrote essays, but also published novels; she published her first major work, the essay "Notes on 'Camp' ", in 1964. Her best-known wor
Camp (style)
…confused with kitsch. The big difference between camp and kitsch is mainly that camp is aware of its artificiality and pretense. The American writer Susan Sontag emphasized camp's key elements as embracing frivolity, excess, and artifice. Art historian David Carrier notes that, despite these qualities, it is…
Photo portrait of Sontag, 1966
The cover of Against Interpretation (1966), which contains some of Sontag's best-known essays
The former Sarajevo newspaper building during the Siege of Sarajevo, when Sontag lived in the city
Susan Sontag in 1994, painted by Bolivian artist Juan Fernando Bastos