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On Photography | 
| Author: Susan Sontag
Publisher: Picador
Category: Book
List Price: $14.00
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Rating:  30 reviews
Sales Rank: 10321
Media: Paperback
Edition: 1st
Pages: 224
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.5
Dimensions (in): 8.2 x 5.5 x 0.7
ISBN: 0312420099
Dewey Decimal Number: 770.1
EAN: 9780312420093
ASIN: 0312420099
Publication Date: August 25, 2001
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Product Description
Winner of the National Book Critics' Circle Award for Criticism.One of the most highly regarded books of its kind, On Photography first appeared in 1977 and is described by its author as “a progress of essays about the meaning and career of photographs.” It begins with the famous “In Plato’s Cave”essay, then offers five other prose meditations on this topic, and concludes with a fascinating and far-reaching “Brief Anthology of Quotations.”
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 Sontag November 13, 2008
Felicia Batzloff (USA)
Sontag
noesis between
a critique of bias accompaniment
modernity into seventies intellect
you all in a thought
prescribed reasoning from
a photographer's reference
she and Arbus
grotesque "single village"
absurd family arranged encumbered
a transparent place
twins are girls
women and dwarves
she conjures Sylvia and Jong
each line cast
another memorial made
bordered thoughts in earnest
image as object
a search
"timeless beauty"
the notion of
character study--history
its colleagues fantastic
wealth and Weston
the modern lover
understands what is new then
she and hisher newness
evidential master's pieces decay
something edible
hidden apparent
tangible counterparts
decisive like Bresson
ghostly layers of Nadar
she collects evokes
collecting the world
Genet and his criminals
possessing their pasts for
posits--her
translations and debut
help from Proust quoted friends
never met or maybe now in death
regarded as part
cannon of thinkers
makers in need included
heroes and heroines
"an ethics in seeing"
a cave of truths
she is evident
in explanation replenished
possessing past to a
defining present
Easy to criticize this book now, but it was the progenitor of the criticism of photography. November 4, 2008
P.S. Woods (Kansas City, MO United States)
These essays helped the scholarship of photography get a fair shake. Even the publication of them in a book was a noteworthy entry in the history of photography. It is easy to look back now and criticize this book, which is basically an intellectual discipline in its infancy, but it remains important. I actually still enjoy the writing, which I find warm and inviting - not because of the tone, but because of the author's sense of adventure. It might be closer to a flight of fancy than a disciplined philosophy, but you have to start somewhere. I still think this is one of the best, most accessible reads on the subject.
On Photography October 24, 2008
Ben Spark (Melbourne, Australia)
On Photography by Susan Sontag. Arrived within time. Is in great condition. And I'm delighted once again with the service. I cannot fault any aspect of it. So 99% and thanks.
a must buy book on photography August 26, 2008
B. Zhang
if you have a serious interest on photography, this book is a must buy. It keep pushing you on considering the meaning of taking a pic, the relationship between the real world and photography, and many other perspectives related to photography. It provide large amount of examples to support its views. I truly think this book is a bible for every photographer. Even if we enter the digital era of photography, the content of this book isn't out of date and have precious value.
Regard to the fact that there is no picture in the whole book, I think that is a right choice. Any presented pictures will limit the universality of discussion, rather than realize it.
Overall, I give five star for this remarkable, historic book.
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