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On Photography

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Picador, 1977 - Art - 208 pages
Winner of the National Book Critics' Circle Award for Criticism.

One of the most highly regarded books of its kind, On Photography first appeared in 1977 and is described by its author as “a progress of essays about the meaning and career of photographs.” It begins with the famous “In Plato’s Cave”essay, then offers five other prose meditations on this topic, and concludes with a fascinating and far-reaching “Brief Anthology of Quotations.”

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User Review  - Mel - Goodreads

Though at times difficult to read, Sontag's essays on photography consistently blew my hair back. A lot of the stuff she writes about is wildly prescient and it definitely got me thinking. There were ... Read full review

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User Review  - Trevor - Goodreads

This was terribly interesting, but I think you needed to know a little more than Sontag explained to understand where she is coming from in all this. The important thing to remember is that Plato ... Read full review

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About the author (1977)

Susan Sontag is the author of four novels, The Benefactor, Death Kit, The Volcano Lover and In America; I, Etcetera, a collection of stories; several plays; and five works of nonfiction, among them Illness as a Metaphor and AIDS and Its Metaphors. In 2001 she was awarded the Jerusalem Prize for the body of her work.

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TitleOn Photography
Picador USA
AuthorSusan Sontag
Editionreprint, revised
PublisherPicador, 1977
ISBN0312420099, 9780312420093
Length208 pages
Subjects › 

Art / Criticism & Theory
Photography / Criticism
Photography / General
  
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