498 reviews for:

Susan Sontag On Photography

Susan Sontag

3.99 AVERAGE

bellaciao1312's review against another edition

5.0

informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

lucys_library's review against another edition

4.5

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sunflowersarepretty's review against another edition

4.25

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very hoity toity english and a lot of “daguerreotype”

chelscola's review against another edition

5.0

informative reflective slow-paced

boriplngr's review against another edition

5.0

informative

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"In the past, a discontent with reality expressed itself as a longing for another world. In modern society, a discontent with reality expresses itself forcefully and most hauntingly by the longing to reproduce this one." (80) 

"What is this humanity? It is a quality things have in common when they are viewed as photographs." 

(111) 

"As photographers describe it, picture-taking is both a limitless technique for appropriating the objective world and an unavoidably solipsistic expression of the singular self" (122)

blueyorkie's review against another edition

3.0

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I was fond of photography (no disappearance on that side!) It was the first book dealing with photography, which is not technical, that I read. I remember something profound complex, which helped me better penetrate this image's world even if the subject was not treated only under its artistic side. Good memories.

lydie95's review against another edition

4.0

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elevander's review against another edition

4.5

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eli1's review against another edition

5.0

dark emotional informative medium-paced

katie_hill22's review against another edition

4.0

informative inspiring reflective relaxing medium-paced