On photography
By: Sontag, Susan
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BookPublisher: United States of America : Farrar, Straus and Giroux , 1977Description: 208 pages.ISBN: 0312420099; 9780312420093.Subject(s): Photography, Artistic | Photography -- PhilosophyDDC classification: 770.1
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Summary: Essays explore the aesthetic and moral problems raised by the presence of the photographic image in modern-day life; consider the relation of photography to art, conscience, and knowledge; and examine the works of major photographers.
In Plato's cave -- America, seen through photographs, darkly -- Melancholy objects -- Heroism of vision -- Photographic evangels -- Image world -- Brief anthology of quotations.
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In Plato's cave -- America, seen through photographs, darkly -- Melancholy objects -- Heroism of vision -- Photographic evangels -- Image world -- Brief anthology of quotations.
Essays explore the aesthetic and moral problems raised by the presence of the photographic image in modern-day life; consider the relation of photography to art, conscience, and knowledge; and examine the works of major photographers.
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