Susan Sontag's on photography / Nico Epstein.
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TextSeries: Macat libraryPublisher: London : Routledge, 2018Description: 1 volumeContent type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9780429939686 (ebook)Other title: On photographySubject(s): Sontag, Susan, 1933-2004. On photography | Photography | Photography & photographs | Fine arts: art forms | Literary theory | Philosophy | Psychology | Study & learning skills: general | Political science & theory | c 1990 to c 1999 | Literature: history & criticism | HistoryGenre/Form: Online access: click to view 2 copies Also available in printed form ISBN 9781912303953Summary: Susan Sontag's 1997 text, On Photography, brought photographic theory into the university classroom with its staunch defence of the medium as art and inspired a new wave of Marxist Criticism in the field. Sontag explains the way in which we are addicted to images and depend on them for knowledge of our surroundings and the problems and challenges this causes. Already an established academic figure, Sontag brought Walter Benjamin's theories in into the academic mainstream. The book retains its relevance in the everyday world because of the applicability of its ideas to the world of digital photography.
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Susan Sontag's 1997 text, On Photography, brought photographic theory into the university classroom with its staunch defence of the medium as art and inspired a new wave of Marxist Criticism in the field. Sontag explains the way in which we are addicted to images and depend on them for knowledge of our surroundings and the problems and challenges this causes. Already an established academic figure, Sontag brought Walter Benjamin's theories in into the academic mainstream. The book retains its relevance in the everyday world because of the applicability of its ideas to the world of digital photography.
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Electronic reproduction. Askews and Holts. Mode of access: World Wide Web.
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