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On Photography

Susan Sontag

  • 224 pages · about 4 hours
  • First published 1977
  • 35 editions
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1 About this book

On Photography is a 1977 collection of essays by Susan Sontag. It originally appeared as a series of essays in the New York Review of Books between 1973 and 1977. In the book, Sontag expresses her views on the history and present-day role of photography in capitalist societies as of the 1970s.

Sontag discusses many examples of modern photography, among these, she contrasts Diane Arbus's work with that of Depression-era documentary photography commissioned by the Farm Security Administration. (Wikipedia).

  • Philosophy
  • Technology & engineering
  • Artistic Photography
  • Photography
  • Photography, artistic

2 About Susan Sontag

1933–2004

Susan Lee Sontag (; January 16, 1933 – December 28, 2004) was an American writer and critic. She primarily wrote essays, but also published novels; she published her first major work, the essay "Notes on 'Camp' ", in 1964.

Bio adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)

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