On photography / Susan Sontag
- Bib ID:
- 6856647
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Sontag, Susan, 1933-2004, author
- Description:
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- London : Penguin Books, 2002
- ©1977
- 207 pages ; 20 cm
- ISBN:
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- 9780141187167 (paperback)
- 0141187166 (paperback)
- Summary:
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Photographs are everywhere. They possess the power to shock or idealize, they create a sense of nostalgia and act as a memorial, and they can be used as evidence or to identify us. In these six incisive essays Susan Sontag examines the role that photography plays in society. She asks how the omnipresence of these images affects how we view the world, and how we have come to rely upon them to provide a sense of reality and authority in our lives.
- Full contents:
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- In Plato's cave
- America, seen through photographs, darkly
- Melancholy objects
- The heroism of vision
- Photographic evangels
- The image-world
- A brief anthology of quotations.
- Subject:
- Copyright:
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In Copyright
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- Reason for copyright status:
- Until 2074 [Creator Date of Death + 70 Years]
Copyright status was determined using the following information:
- Material type:
- Literary Dramatic Musical
- Presumed date of death of creator (latest date):
- 2004
- Published status:
- Published
- Publication date:
- 1977
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