Susan Sontag's groundbreaking critique of photography asks forceful questions about the moral and aesthetic issues surrounding this art form.
Susan Sontag was born in Manhattan in 1933 and studied at the universities of Chicago, Harvard and Oxford. Her non-fiction works include Against Interpretation, On Photography, Illness as Metaphor, AIDS and its Metaphors and Regarding the Pain of Others. She is also the author of four novels, a collection of stories and several plays. Her books are translated into thirty-two languages. In 2001 she was awarded the Jerusalem Prize for the body of her work, and in 2003 she received the Prince of Asturias Prize for Literature and the Peace Prize of the German Book Trade. She died in December 2004. Penguin will publish Sontag on Film in October 2016.
"A brilliant analysis of the profound changes photographic images
have made in our way of looking at the world and at ourselves over
the last 140 years."--"Washington Post Book World"
"Every page of "On Photography" raises important and exciting
questions about its subject and raises them in the best
way.""--""The New York Times Book Review"
"A book of great importance and originality . . . All future
discussion or analysis of the role of photography in the affluent
mass-media societies are now bound to begin with her book."--John
Berger
"Not many photographs are worth a thousand of [Susan Sontag's]
words."--Robert Hughes, Time
"After Sontag, photography must be written about not only as a
force in the arts, but as one that is increasingly powerful in the
nature and destiny of our global society."--"Newsweek"
""On Photography" is to my mind the most original and illuminating
study of the subject."--Calvin Trillin, " The New Yorker"""
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