On Photography

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Picador, 1977 - 224 pages

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."

Autres éditions - Tout afficher

On Photography
Susan Sontag
Aperçu limité - 2001
On Photography
Susan Sontag
Aucun aperçu disponible - 2001

À propos de l'auteur (1977)

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.

Informations bibliographiques

TitreOn Photography
AuteurSusan Sontag
Éditionréimprimée, révisée
ÉditeurPicador, 1977
ISBN0312420099, 9780312420093
Longueur224 pages
  
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