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On photography / Susan Sontag.
Publication details: New York : Picador USA, 2001, c1977.Edition: 1st Picador USA edDescription: 208 p. ; 21 cmISBN:- 0312420099 :
- TR183 .S65 2001
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Summary: 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."
In Plato's cave -- America, seen through photographs, darkly -- Melancholy objects -- The heroism of vision -- Photographic evangels -- The image world -- A brief anthology of quotations.
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| TR 183 .J44 2008 How to read a photograph : lessons from master photographers / | TR 183 .M4 1997 The engine of visualization : thinking through photography / | TR 183 .S65 2001 On photography / | TR 183 .S65 2001 On photography / | TR 183 .T475 2003 Truth and photography : notes on looking and photographing / | TR 185 .B32 2001 Each wild idea : writing, photography, history / | TR 185 .B86 2006 Inside the photograph : writings on twentieth-century photography / |
Originally published: New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1977.
In Plato's cave -- America, seen through photographs, darkly -- Melancholy objects -- The heroism of vision -- Photographic evangels -- The image world -- A brief anthology of quotations.
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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