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3.99 AVERAGE
3.99 AVERAGE
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the first essay “in plato’s cave” is phenomenal for reflecting on photography. i think the rest of the essays require a deep fascination with very technical things in photography that lost my interest
Not the most insightful essays I have ever read (and I am not a big essay reader to begin with), but definitely worth reading if you are interested in photography or the philosophy of art in general. The brief anthology of quotations was amazing.
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I think this should be required reading for anyone who consumes and engages with social media. Sontag intended this collection to generally address photography as a historical whole, but you cannot help by drawing parallels between her thoughts and how social media has evolved. I have never felt more seen than by this book.
This almost had five stars, because I really like Sontag's fast and brutal style, but that last essay is sooooo bad that it highlighted all the other problems in the book.
As was, I was pissed by the time I finished this. Even if I pretend that somehow Sontag opened an essay with the same subject matter and SAME LEAD QUOTE as Dubord's Society of the Spectacle, while apparently not being influenced by it enough to site him, it's still not a good job.
I mean, treating Chinese culture as static? Really?
As was, I was pissed by the time I finished this. Even if I pretend that somehow Sontag opened an essay with the same subject matter and SAME LEAD QUOTE as Dubord's Society of the Spectacle, while apparently not being influenced by it enough to site him, it's still not a good job.
I mean, treating Chinese culture as static? Really?
Fascinating. I understand why this essay series is a classic. Very glad it was recommended to me.
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Vaikea päästä tähän sisään. Valokuvaamisesta kirjoittaminen 70-luvulla on niin eri, kuin tämän päivän digikuvien ja internetin ajassa. Toisaalta paikoin teksti oli ajatonta; miten kameran eteen tuodaan ideaaliversio niin itsestä kuin perheestä, miten kuvat ovat kapitalismin ja kuluttamisen keinoja.