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On Photography Susan Sontag

On Photography By Susan Sontag

On Photography by Susan Sontag


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Summary

A study of the force of photographic images which are continually inserted between experience and reality. It develops further the concept of 'transparency'. It makes up an exploration of how the image has affected society.

On Photography Summary

On Photography by Susan Sontag

First published in 1973, this is a study of the force of photographic images which are continually inserted between experience and reality. Sontag develops further the concept of 'transparency'. When anything can be photographed and photography has destroyed the boundaries and definitions of art, a viewer can approach a photograph freely with no expectations of discovering what it means. This collection of six lucid and invigorating essays, the most famous being In Plato's Cave, make up a deep exploration of how the image has affected society.

About Susan Sontag

Susan Sontag is one of America's best-known and most admired writers. Her critical essays have established her as one of the leading commentators on contemporary culture. She is the author of several work of fiction and her non-fiction includes ILLNESS AS METAPHOR (Penguin Modern Classics). She has also written and directed four feature films and stages plays in the US and Europe.

Table of Contents

In Plato's cave; America, seen through photographs, darkly; melancholy objects; the heroism of vision; photographic evangels; the image-world; a brief anthology of quotations.

Additional information

GOR001218206
9780141187167
0141187166
On Photography by Susan Sontag
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Penguin Books Ltd
20021205
224
N/A
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