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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 770.1
EAN: 9780312420093
ISBN: 0312420099
Label: Picador
Manufacturer: Picador
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 224
Publication Date: August 25, 2001
Publisher: Picador
Sales Rank: 8751
Studio: Picador
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Product Description:
Winner of the National Book Critics' Circle Award for Criticism.One of the most highly regarded books of its kind, On Photography first appeared in 1977 and is described by its author as “a progress of essays about the meaning and career of photographs.” It begins with the famous “In Plato’s Cave”essay, then offers five other prose meditations on this topic, and concludes with a fascinating and far-reaching “Brief Anthology of Quotations.”
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One line on page 14 says: "The camera/gun does not kill, so the ominous metaphor seems to be all bluff - like a man's fantasy of having a gun, knife or tool between his legs.
Wow, I've never had one of these fantasies so I guess I must not be a real man.
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Sontag
noesis between
a critique of bias accompaniment
modernity into seventies intellect
you all in a thought
prescribed reasoning from
a photographer's reference
she and Arbus
grotesque "single village"
absurd family arranged encumbered
a transparent place
twins are girls
women and dwarves
she conjures Sylvia and Jong
each line cast
another memorial made
bordered thoughts in ... Read More
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These essays helped the scholarship of photography get a fair shake. Even the publication of them in a book was a noteworthy entry in the history of photography. It is easy to look back now and criticize this book, which is basically an intellectual discipline in its infancy, but it remains important. I actually still enjoy the writing, which I find warm and inviting - not because of the tone, but because of the author's sense of adventure. It might be closer to a flight of fancy than a disciplined ... Read More
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I originally purchased this book based on the extraordinary, glowing reviews - you know, the same ones on the back cover: "book of great importance and originality", "the most original and illuminating study of the subject", "raises important and exciting questions" etc. etc. etc.
Since buying it, I've attempted to plow through it at least 4-5 times, managing to get about 3/4ths through. And I LIKE philosophy and alternative thinking! The problem I think, is that much of what Sontag ... Read More
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On Photography by Susan Sontag. Arrived within time. Is in great condition. And I'm delighted once again with the service. I cannot fault any aspect of it. So 99% and thanks.
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