On Photography - Brossura

Sontag, Susan

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0141187166 ISBN 13: 9780141187167

Casa editrice: Penguin Classics, 2002

Riassunto

First published in 1973, this is a study of the force of photographic images which are continually inserted between experience and reality. Sontag develops further the concept of 'transparency'. When anything can be photographed and photography has destroyed the boundaries and definitions of art, a viewer can approach a photograph freely with no expectations of discovering what it means.

This collection of six lucid and invigorating essays, the most famous being "In Plato's Cave," make up a deep exploration of how the image has affected society.

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L'autore:

Susan Sontag was born in Manhattan in 1933 and studied at the universities of Chicago, Harvard and Oxford. Her non-fiction works include Against Interpretation, On Photography, Illness as Metaphor, AIDS and its Metaphors and Regarding the Pain of Others. She is also the author of four novels, a collection of stories and several plays. Her books are translated into thirty-two languages. In 2001 she was awarded the Jerusalem Prize for the body of her work, and in 2003 she received the Prince of Asturias Prize for Literature and the Peace Prize of the German Book Trade. She died in December 2004.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Penguin Classics
• Data di pubblicazione: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0141187166
• ISBN 13: 9780141187167
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 224