Essays

The essay collection “On Photography”, first published in 1977, is one of the most widely read standard works on photography theory.

Susan Sontag describes the contradictory nature of photography, its moral, social and political role in a world characterized by a massive flood of images and sheds light on its relationship to reality.

The book consists of six independent essays with the titles:

In Plato's cave
America in the dark mirror of photography
Objects of Melancholy
The heroism of seeing
Photographic Gospels
The world of images

Susan Sontag, born in New York in 1933, was a writer and film and theater director. She became world famous primarily through her essays. She won the National Book Award for her last novel, "In America." She received the Jerusalem Book Prize and the Peace Prize of the German Book Trade in 2003. Susan Sonntag died in New York in 2004.

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Author: Susan Sontag

Number of pages: 208 pages

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ISBN: 978-3-596-23022-8

Publisher: Fischer Verlag

Type: Paperback

About Photography

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About Photography

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