On Photography Book

'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

On Photography : Paperback : Penguin Books Ltd : 9780140053975 : 0140053972 : 27 Sep 1979 : A study of the force of photographic images which are continually inserted between experience and reality. It develops the concept of 'transparency'. It features six essays including `In Plato's Cave,` which explores how the image has affected society.

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'.