On Photography

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Susan Sontag’s On Photography is a seminal and groundbreaking work on the subject.
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.
‘Sontag offers enough food for thought to satisfy the most intellectual of appetites’The Times
‘A brilliant analysis of the profound changes photographic images have made in our way of looking at the world, and at ourselves’Washington Post
‘The most original and illuminating study of the subject’New Yorker
One of America’s 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.

ASIN ‏ : ‎ 0141035781
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Penguin UK (25 September 2008); Penguin Random House Ireland Limited; productsafety@penguin.co.uk
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 224 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 9780141035789
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0141035789
Reading age ‏ : ‎ 10 years and up
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 156 g
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 11.2 x 1.7 x 18.1 cm
Country of Origin ‏ : ‎ India
Net Quantity ‏ : ‎ 500.00 Grams
Importer ‏ : ‎ Penguin Random House India Pvt Ltd
Packer ‏ : ‎ Penguin Random House India Pvt Ltd
Generic Name ‏ : ‎ BOOKS
Best Sellers Rank: #4,372 in Books (See Top 100 in Books) #3 in Photography Books #4 in Theory & Criticism #26 in Essays (Books)
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