{"product_id":"on-photography-fsg-80th-anniversary-special-edition-9780374622442","title":"On Photography: Fsg 80th Anniversary Special Edition","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinner 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\" (\u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"To photograph is to appropriate the thing photographed,\" Susan Sontag writes in the opening pages of \u003ci\u003eOn Photography\u003c\/i\u003e, 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Susan Sontag\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Farrar, Straus and Giroux\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/07\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 224\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.50lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.22h x 5.45w x 0.62d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780374622442\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSusan Sontag \u003c\/b\u003ewas the author of four novels, including \u003ci\u003eThe Benefactor\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eDeath Kit\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Volcano Lover\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eIn America\u003c\/i\u003e, which won the 2000 National Book Award for fiction; a collection of stories, \u003ci\u003eI, etcetera\u003c\/i\u003e; several plays, including \u003ci\u003eAlice in Bed\u003c\/i\u003e; and nine works of essays, among them \u003ci\u003eOn Photography\u003c\/i\u003e, 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.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"booksdeli.com","offers":[{"title":"Susan Sontag \/ Paperback \/ English","offer_id":48752149823645,"sku":"9780374622442","price":22.8,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0619\/5648\/9373\/files\/img_4908e1e4-e4cd-4632-9fe7-ef6ec74c1ee3.jpg?v=1785920387","url":"https:\/\/booksdeli.com\/products\/on-photography-fsg-80th-anniversary-special-edition-9780374622442","provider":"booksdeli.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}