Susan Sontag: On Photography, Kartoniert / Broschiert
On Photography
- Publisher:
- Picador, 04/2025
- Binding:
- Kartoniert / Broschiert
- Language:
- Englisch
- ISBN-13:
- 9781250374745
- Item number:
- 11834383
- Volume:
- 226 Pages
- Weight:
- 454 g
- Format:
- 210 x 137 mm
- Thickness:
- 25 mm
- Release date:
- 15.4.2025
- Note
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Caution: Product is not in German language
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Blurb
Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism
A new edition of Susan Sontag's groundbreaking critique of photography-its problems, politics, and possibilities.
"To photograph is to appropriate the thing photographed," Sontag writes in the opening pages of On Photography , which went on to influence generations of theorists, film critics, and readers everywhere. Originally published in the 1970s, her groundbreaking collection remains uncannily prescient and profoundly precise.
With her singular searching eye, and her refusal to buckle under received wisdom, she presents a rousing critique of the functions of imagery-to seduce, to advertise, to evoke, to commemorate, to conspire, to conceal-across six essays. The result is a damning portrait of the ways we use imagery to manufacture reality and authority that feels as if it were written today.
Biography
Susan Sontag, 1933 in New York geboren, ist Schriftstellerin, Filmemacherin und Theaterregisseurin. Sie erhielt unter anderen den Jerusalem Prize, den National Book Award, den Prinz-von-Asturien-Preis und 2003 den Friedenspreis des Deutschen Buchhandels. Sie starb 2004 in New York.
