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On Photography

Susan Sontag

3.99 AVERAGE

enue's review against another edition

4.5

challenging medium-paced

mark_friedman's review against another edition

5.0

Essential reading for a basis in understanding the nature of our media-driven society. Although Sontag wrote these essays in the 1970s, when digital photography was on the cusp of the future (and the invasion of the digital camera into every facet of our daily lives was still unimagined) her analysis of the elemental role of the photograph to the modern human still rings entirely true. Sontag’s book, paired with Daniel Boorstin’s “The Image,” provides a 2020s reader with the previous generation’s smartest and most prescient thinking on the unintended and unavoidable consequences of a civilization in the process of supplanting the written word with the photographic image.

missihavenoidea's review against another edition

4.5

informative inspiring lighthearted reflective relaxing fast-paced

humpalasungramatas's review against another edition

5.0

Lots and lots and lots of ideas, sometimes hard to comprehend and divide the thoughts between paragraphs, but a must read for art students, photography enthusiasts and people who think they`re intelligent (think again).