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On Photography - Penguin Modern Classics
Susan Sontag
Paperback (25 Sep 2008)


Susan Sontags On Photography is a seminal and groundbreaking work on the subject.

Susan Sontags groundbreaking critique of photography asks forceful questions about the moral and aesthetic issues surrounding this art form. Photographs are everywhere, and the insatiability of the photographing eye has profoundly altered our relationship with the world. Photographs 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 these 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.

Sontag offers enough food for thought to satisfy the most intellectual of appetitesThe Times

A brilliant analysis of the profound changes photographic images have made in our way of looking at the world, and at ourselvesWashington Post

The most original and illuminating study of the subjectNew Yorker

One of Americas best-known and most admired writers, Susan Sontag was also a leading commentator on contemporary culture until her death in December 2004. Her books include four novels and numerous works of non-fiction, among them Regarding the Pain of Others, On Photography, Illness as Metaphor, At the Same Time, Against Interpretation and Other Essays and Reborn: Early Diaries 1947-1963, all of which are published by Penguin. A further eight books, including the collections of essays Under the Sign of Saturn and Where the Stress Falls, and the novels The Volcano Lover and The Benefactor, are available from Penguin Modern Classics.


Product details

Format Paperback | 224 pages
Dimensions 111 x 181 x 16mm | 155g
Publication date 01 Apr 2010
Publisher Penguin Books Ltd
Imprint Penguin Classics
Publication City/Country London, United Kingdom
Language English
ISBN13 9780141035789
Bestsellers rank 3,326