On photography / Susan Sontag.

By:

Sontag, Susan, 1933-2004

Material type:

TextPublication details: London : Penguin Books, c1979.Description: 207 p. ; 20 cmISBN:

9780140053975

Subject(s):

Photography, Artistic

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Contents:

In Plato's cave -- America, seen through photographs, darkly -- Melancholy objects -- The heroism of vision -- Photographic evangels -- The image world -- A brief anthology of quotations.

Summary: Susan Sontag's groundbreaking critique of photography asks forceful questions about the moral ans aesthetic issues surrounding this art form. Photographs are everywhere. They have the power to shock, idealize or seduce, they create a sense of nostalgia and act as a memorial , and they can be used as evidence against us or to identify us. Here 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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In Plato's cave -- America, seen through photographs, darkly --
Melancholy objects --
The heroism of vision --
Photographic evangels --
The image world --
A brief anthology of quotations.

Susan Sontag's groundbreaking critique of photography asks forceful questions about the moral ans aesthetic issues surrounding this art form. Photographs are everywhere. They have the power to shock, idealize or seduce, they create a sense of nostalgia and act as a memorial , and they can be used as evidence against us or to identify us. Here 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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