Sontag, Susan
On Photography (Penguin Modern Classics)
- ISBN 13:
- 9780141035789
- author:
- Sontag, Susan
- format:
- Paperback
- publisher:
- Penguin Classics
- language:
- English
- Publication Year:
- 2008
- Pages:
- 224
- Dimensions:
- 17.78 x 10.92 x 2.03 centimetres
- Genre:
- Other Prose: From C 1900 -
- Condition:
- New
- Availability:
- Item usually sent within 7 working days
Description
Susan Sontag's On Photography is a thought-provoking critique of the art form, exploring its moral and aesthetic implications. The omnipresent nature of photographs has profoundly altered our relationship with the world, and Sontag examines how we use these images to manufacture a sense of reality and authority in our lives. Through six incisive essays, Sontag delves into the ways photographs can shock, idealize, seduce, create nostalgia, and act as memorials, while also serving as evidence against us or to identify us. Her analysis offers a profound understanding of the profound changes photographic images have made in our way of looking at the world, and at ourselves. A seminal work by one of America's most admired writers, On Photography is a worthwhile read for anyone interested in the power and impact of photography on our culture and society.
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