Review: Susan Sontag On Photography. It originally appeared as a series of essays in the New York Review of Books between 1973 and 1977.
The last, essentially, is Sontag's subject, approached—after a splatter of (as yet) unsupported assertions —via touchstone figures: writers, photographers, painters interchangeably. Photography's inferior but inexorable version of reality is the bases of On Photography. 2 Criticism and acclaim. She received her B.A. Reviewing Susan Sontag's book is analogous to printing in the darkroom. On Photography by Susan Sontag 36,457 ratings, 3.83 average rating, 732 reviews Open Preview On Photography Quotes Showing 1-30 of 69 “To photograph people is to violate them, by seeing them as they never see themselves, by having knowledge of them that they can never have; it turns people into objects that can be symbolically possessed. This argument, Sontag says, is widely accepted in modern culture which is constantly engaged with producing and consuming images to such a degree that photography has been made essential for the health of the economy and the stability of social … Why On Photography Matters. Susan Sontag has returned photography to the cockpit of discussion it occupied when the exact mechanical image loomed as a threat to the person, to art, to the very relationship between images and reality. Photography. New York Times Book Review “On Photography is to my mind the most original and illuminating study of the subject.”—Calvin Trillin, The New Yorker . For one thing, there are a great many more images around claiming our attention.
Anyone interested in the social roles of photography will find this book fascinating and thought-provoking. We linger unregenerately in Plato’s cave, still reveling, our age-old habit, in mere image of the truth. Susan Sontag was born in New York City on January 16, 1933. Susan Sontag quotes Feuerbach in saying that our age prefers the photograph to the real thing, the appearance before experience. On Photography by Susan Sontag 36,457 ratings, 3.83 average rating, 732 reviews Open Preview On Photography Quotes Showing 1-30 of 69 “To photograph people is to violate them, by seeing them as they never see themselves, by having knowledge of them that they can never have; it turns people into objects that can be symbolically possessed.
For non-photographers, it is doubtful whether they would find any value in reading this. As everything she wrote, Susan Sontag's book on photography is brilliant. As everything she wrote, Susan Sontag's book on photography is brilliant. I recently read it while developing an aesthetics …
James Fenton on how Susan Sontag has adjusted her thinking on photography James Fenton Fri 4 Jul 2003 21.26 EDT First published on Fri 4 Jul 2003 21.26 EDT
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