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On Photography: Fsg 80th Anniversary Special Edition
Winner of the National Book Critics' Circle Award for Criticism, Susan Sontag's influential essays, heralded as "the...
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Winner of the National Book Critics' Circle Award for Criticism, Susan Sontag's influential essays, heralded as "the most original and illuminating study of the subject" (The New Yorker).
"To photograph is to appropriate the thing photographed," Susan Sontag writes in the opening pages of On Photography, a groundbreaking collection which has gone on to influence generations of theorists, critics, and readers everywhere. Published in 1977, Sontag's seminal work, the winner of a National Book Critics Circle Award, remains uncannily prescient and profoundly incisive to this day. With her searching eye and refusal to buckle to received wisdom, Sontag presents a rousing critique of the functions of imagery--to seduce, to advertise, to evoke, to commemorate, to persuade, to deceive--across six formidable essays. The result is a complex portrait of the contradictory ways we use imagery to manufacture reality and authority, conveyed by her singular depth of analysis, that will endure for decades to come.Author: Susan Sontag
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Published: 07/07/2026
Pages: 224
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.50lbs
Size: 8.22h x 5.45w x 0.62d
ISBN: 9780374622442
About the Author
Susan Sontag was the author of four novels, including The Benefactor, Death Kit, The Volcano Lover, and In America, which won the 2000 National Book Award for fiction; a collection of stories, I, etcetera; several plays, including Alice in Bed; and nine works of essays, among them On Photography, which won the National Book Critics' Circle Award for Criticism. In 2001, Sontag was awarded the Jerusalem Prize for the body of her work. She died in New York City in 2004.
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