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On photography / Susan Sontag.

On photography / Susan Sontag.
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ISBN 0140053972
9780140053975
071391128X
9780713911282
Name Sontag, Susan, 1933-2004 author
Title On photography / Susan Sontag.
Published Harmondsworth : Penguin, 1979.
1977
Description 207 pages ; 20 cm.
Notes Reprint. Originally published 1977.
Note 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.
Donated by Nell Fraser;
Subjects Photography -- Philosophy
Art and photography
Photography, Artistic
Photography, Artistic -- History
Photography
Genre History.
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