About Photography
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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 characteristics 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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