On photography

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Susan Sontag: On photography (1989, Farrar, Straus and Giroux)

208 pages

English language

Published July 14, 1989 by Farrar, Straus and Giroux.

ISBN:
978-0-374-52113-4
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OCLC Number:
19388025

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On Photography is a 1977 collection of essays by Susan Sontag. It originally appeared as a series of essays in the New York Review of Books between 1973 and 1977. In the book, Sontag expresses her views on the history and present-day role of photography in capitalist societies as of the 1970s. Sontag discusses many examples of modern photography, among these, she contrasts Diane Arbus's work with that of Depression-era documentary photography commissioned by the Farm Security Administration. ([Wikipedia][1])

[1]: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_Photography

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  • Photography -- Philosophy