On Photography
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offers a critique of photography that asks forceful questions about the moral and aesthetic issues surrounding this art form. This book examines the ways in which we use these omnipresent images to ma...
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offers a critique of photography that asks forceful questions about the moral and aesthetic issues surrounding this art form. This book examines the ways in which we use these omnipresent images to manufacture a sense of reality and authority in our lives. ''The most original and illuminating study of the subject'' New YorkerPhotographs are everywhere. From high art to family albums to legal evidence, they capture and document the world around us. and whether we use them to expose, reveal or remember, they hold an enduring power.In this essential and revelatory volume, Susan Sontag confronts important questions surrounding the power dynamics between photographer and subject, the blurred boundary between lived events and recreated images, and the desires that lead us to record our lives.''Complex and contradictory... one of America''s greatest public intellectuals'' Observer''susan Sontag offers enough food for thought to satisfy the most intellectual of appetites'' The Times''A brilliant analysis of the profound changes photographic images have had in our way of looking at the world, and at ourselves, over the years'' Washington Post
Detaljer
Forlag
Penguin Books Ltd
ISBN
9780140053975
Sprog
Engelsk
Sider
240
Udgivelsesdato
27-09-1979
Format
Paperback
Varenr.
3040272
EAN nr.
9780140053975
Varegruppe
Engelsk non fiction div.
Højde/Dybde (mm)
15
Bredde (mm)
195
Længde (mm)
130
Vægt (g)
174