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On photography / Susan Sontag.

By: Sontag, Susan, 1933-2004 [author.]Material type: TextTextSeries: Penguin Modern ClassicsPublication details: London : Penguin, 2008Description: 207 p. : 20 cmISBN: 9780141035789 :; 0141035781 :Subject(s): Photography -- Philosophy | Photography -- Social aspects | Photography -- Moral and ethical aspects | Photography, ArtisticDDC classification: 770.1 Summary: 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. 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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Originally published: New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1977; London: Allen Lane, 1978.

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. 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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