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100	1		_91622 _aSontag, Susan, _d1933-2004
245	0	0	_aOn photography / _cSusan Sontag.
260			_aLondon : _bPenguin Books, _cc1979.
300			_a207 p. ; _c20 cm.
505	0		_aIn Plato's cave -- America, seen through photographs, darkly -- Melancholy objects -- The heroism of vision -- Photographic evangels -- The image world -- A brief anthology of quotations.
520			_aSusan 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.
650		0	_91594 _aPhotography, Artistic
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