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On Photography

Susan Sontag

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English
Penguin
05 January 2009
'The most original and illuminating study of the subject'

New Yorker

How do we see the world around us? The Penguin on Design series includes the works of creative thinkers whose writings on art, design and the media have changed our vision forever.

Susan Sontag's groundbreaking critique of photography asks forceful questions about the moral and aesthetic issues surrounding this art form. Photographs are everywhere. They have the power to shock, idealize or seduce, they create a sense of nostalgia and act as a memorial, and they can be used as evidence against us or to identify us. In six incisive essays, Sontag examines the ways in which we use these omnipresent images to manufacture a sense of reality and authority in our lives.

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Imprint:   Penguin
Country of Publication:   United Kingdom
Dimensions:   Height: 181mm,  Width: 111mm,  Spine: 16mm
Weight:   155g
ISBN:   9780141035789
ISBN 10:   0141035781
Series:   Penguin Modern Classics
Pages:   224
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Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

Susan Sontag was an American essayist, novelist, filmmaker and activist.

Reviews for On Photography

A brilliant analysis of the profound changes photographic images have made in our way of looking at the world and at ourselves over the last 140 years. -- Washington Post Book World Every page of On Photography raises important and exciting questions about its subject and raises them in the best way. -- The New York Times Book Review A book of great importance and originality . . . All future discussion or analysis of the role of photography in the affluent mass-media societies are now bound to begin with her book. --John Berger Not many photographs are worth a thousand of [Susan Sontag's] words. --Robert Hughes, Time After Sontag, photography must be written about not only as a force in the arts, but as one that is increasingly powerful in the nature and destiny of our global society. -- Newsweek On Photography is to my mind the most original and illuminating study of the subject. --Calvin Trillin, The New Yorker


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