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On Photography
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LENGTH6 hrs and 12 mins
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RELEASE DATE09-02-11
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Program TypeAudiobook
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Publisher's Summary
First published in 1973, this is a study of the force of photographic images, which are continually inserted between experience and reality. Sontag here 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, with the most famous being "In Plato's Cave", make up a deep exploration of how the image has affected society.
©2003 Susan Sontag (P)2011 Audible, Inc.
What the Critics Say
"A brilliant analysis of the profound changes photographic images have made in our way of looking at the world and at ourselves over the last 140 years." (The Washington Post Book World)
"Every page of On Photography raises important and exciting questions about its subject and raises them in the best way." (The New York Times Book Review)
"On Photography is to my mind the most original and illuminating study of the subject." (Calvin Trillin, The New Yorker)
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What Members Say
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"Pompas art school babble"
Any additional comments?Typical holier than thou, pompas poser art school blather. I had to endure endless hours of self gratifying, self agrandizing lectures like this when I attended art school. These were delivered both professors who had never spent a day making art (or making a living from art either) in the real world, and student wanna bes (all of whom are today are gainfully employed as waiteresses, bag boys or art school professors). Pure and unadulterated BS!
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