Susan sontag on photography pdf

On Photography is a 1977 collection of essays by Susan Sontag. It originally appeared as a series of essays in the New York Review of Books between 1973 and 1977.

In the book, Sontag expresses her views on the history and present-day role of photography in capitalist societies as of the 1970s. Sontag discusses many examples of modern photography.

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In Plato's Cave

• Photographed images do not seem to be statements about the world so much as pieces of it, miniatures of reality that anyone can make or acquire.

• The particular qualities and intentions of photographs tend to be swallowed up in the generalized pathos of time past.

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America, Seen Through Photographs, Darkly

• Whitman thought he was not abolishing beauty but generalizing it. So, for generations, did the most gifted American photographers, in their polemical pursuit of the trivial and the vulgar.

  But among American photographers w