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Highlights
- Winner of the National Book Critics' Circle Award for Criticism.
- 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 then On Photography, which won the National Books Critics Circle Award for criticism.
- 224 Pages
- Photography, Criticism
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About the Book
Originally published: New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, c1977.Book Synopsis
Winner of the National Book Critics' Circle Award for Criticism.
One of the most highly regarded books of its kind, Susan Sontag's 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."Review Quotes
"A brilliant analysis of the profound changes photographic images have made in our way of looking at the world and at ourselves over the last 140 years." --Washington Post Book World
"Every page of On Photography raises important and exciting questions about its subject and raises them in the best way." --The New York Times Book Review "A book of great importance and originality . . . All future discussion or analysis of the role of photography in the affluent mass-media societies are now bound to begin with her book." --John Berger "Not many photographs are worth a thousand of [Susan Sontag's] words." --Robert Hughes, Time "After Sontag, photography must be written about not only as a force in the arts, but as one that is increasingly powerful in the nature and destiny of our global society." --Newsweek "On Photography is to my mind the most original and illuminating study of the subject." --Calvin Trillin, The New YorkerAbout 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 then On Photography, which won the National Books 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.Dimensions (Overall): 8.26 Inches (H) x 5.53 Inches (W) x .62 Inches (D)
Weight: .46 Pounds
Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up
Number of Pages: 224
Genre: Photography
Sub-Genre: Criticism
Publisher: Picador USA
Format: Paperback
Author: Susan Sontag
Language: English
Street Date: August 25, 2001
TCIN: 77021273
UPC: 9780312420093
Item Number (DPCI): 247-25-4144
Origin: Made in the USA or Imported
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