On Photography

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First published in 1973, this is a study of the force of photographic images which are continually inserted between experience and reality Sontag develops further the concept of transparency When anything can be photographed and photography has destroyed the boundaries and definitions of art, a viewer can approach a photograph freely with no expectations of discovering what it means This collection of six lucid and invigorating essays, the most famous being In Plato s Cave , make up a deep exploration of how the image has affected society. Download On Photography author Susan Sontag – kino-fada.fr This was terribly interesting, but I think you needed to know a littlethan Sontag explained to understand where she is coming from in all this The important thing to remember is that Plato wanted to banish the artists and he wanted to do this for a very good reason To Plato the world we live in isn t really the real world the real world is a world we cannot have access to, the real world is where things never die, things remain the same and don t change Change and death, to Plato, are This was terribly interesting, but I think you needed to know a littlethan Sontag explained to understand where she is coming from in all this The important thing to remember is that Plato wanted to banish the artists and he wanted to do this for a very good reason To Plato the world we live in isn t really the real world the real world is a world we cannot have access to, the real world is where thing...I found this book utterly maddening I m giving it four stars not for the content itself, but for the quality of thinking I did while reading I m rather surprised not to have found any comments in other reviews regarding Sontag s horrific tactlessness in her discussions of freaks in the context of Diane Arbus work Less shocking but also disappointing her wholesale dismissal of the Surrealists, or as she calls them two or three times, the Surrealist militants , which they decidedly were I found this book utterly maddening I m giving it four stars not for the content itself, but for the quality of thinking I did while reading I m rather surprised not to have found any comments in other reviews regarding Sontag s horrific tac..., , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , 1977, I ve never read anything by Susan Sontag, but encountered mentions of her book On Photography numerous times in various contexts It s hailed as one of the most highly regarded books of its kind I like taking photographs myself, and thought I would find it interesting.Those seeking a well constructed history of photography, its development and an introduction to various schools and movements of photography as I did are likely to be disappointed On Photography has no central thesis, and i I ve never read anything by Susan Sontag, but encountered mentions of her book On Photography numerous times in various contexts It s hailed as one of the most highly regarded books of its kind I like taking photographs myself, and thought I would find it interesting.Those seeking a well constructed history of photography, its development and an introduction to various schools and movements of photography as I did are likely to be disappointed On Photography has no central thesis, and is a collection of essays about the meaning and career of photographs as described by Sontag herself This isn t a book on photograph...Step one buy this book Step two find a writing utensil Step three go on the subway metro pvta and go you will want to underline just about every sentence because it is life changing You will want to hug your camer...I approached On Photography expecting a sense of warmth and intellect that Maria Popova paints Susan Sontag with One essay in, I was slightly disappointed to feel no warmth So, I read an interview of hers where the interviewer says the yes and no attitude is typical of her writing, something that I had experienced as well She responds by saying that it is not yes and no, rather this but also that She argues in defence of the premise of seriousness, an idea both close to my heart and valuab I approached On Photography expecting a sense of warmth and intellect that Maria Popova paints Susan Sontag with One essay in, I was slightly disappointed to feel no warmth So, I read an interview of hers where the interviewer says the yes...A wonderful essay on the art of photography.A dense and theoretical book on a subject I know very little about She refers to a vast collection of exhibits, and all I knew before is point a camera at a thing and press a button.Sontag is very forceful and eloquent in her opinions I can see her turning Pl...To think this was published in 1973 when photographs were just mementos and souvenirs What have they become now, in the age of the selfie Sontag, Barthes, Benjamin, etc many people have written about the semiotics and significance of photography as an art Photography has been held up as a record of things as they were photographs become exhibits in the trial that is history. says Walter Benjamin, comparing the subjects of photographs to crime scenes But are photos still treated a To think this was published in 1973 when photographs were just mementos and souvenirs What have they become now, in the age of the selfie Sontag, Barthes...This is a classic book of essays about how photography reveals so much about society, politics, history, and our attitudes towards preserving the image and the potential truth inherent in a photograph I don t read much nonfiction, and this was originally for a class, but ...

On Photography
  • English
  • 09 February 2017
  • Paperback
  • 224 pages
  • 0141187166
  • Susan Sontag
  • On Photography