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0140053972
9780140053975
071391128X
9780713911282
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Sontag, Susan, 1933-2004
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On photography / Susan Sontag.
Published
Harmondsworth : Penguin, 1979.
1977
Description
207 pages ; 20 cm.
Notes
Reprint. Originally published 1977.
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Includes bibliographical references.
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.
Summary
Susan Sontag's 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.
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Nell Fraser;
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Photography -- Philosophy
Art and photography
Photography, Artistic
Photography, Artistic -- History
Photography
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History.
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