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On Photography: Fsg 80th Anniversary Special Edition

On Photography: Fsg 80th Anniversary Special Edition

Sontag, Susan

Paperback

Art Criticism & TheoryPhotography History & Criticism

Publisher Price: $19.00

ISBN10: 0374622442
ISBN13: 9780374622442
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Published: Jul 7 2026
Pages: 224
Weight: 0.50
Height: 0.62 Width: 5.45 Depth: 8.22
Language: English

Winner of the National Book Critics' Circle Award for Criticism, Susan Sontag's influential essays, heralded as the most original and illuminating study of the subject (The New Yorker).

To photograph is to appropriate the thing photographed, Susan Sontag writes in the opening pages of On Photography, a groundbreaking collection which has gone on to influence generations of theorists, critics, and readers everywhere. Published in 1977, Sontag's seminal work, the winner of a National Book Critics Circle Award, remains uncannily prescient and profoundly incisive to this day. With her searching eye and refusal to buckle to received wisdom, Sontag presents a rousing critique of the functions of imagery--to seduce, to advertise, to evoke, to commemorate, to persuade, to deceive--across six formidable essays. The result is a complex portrait of the contradictory ways we use imagery to manufacture reality and authority, conveyed by her singular depth of analysis, that will endure for decades to come.

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