On Photography

Winner of the National Book Critics' Circle Award for Criticism.

One of the most highly regarded books of its kind, Susan Sontag's On Photography first appeared in 1977 and is described by its author as a progress of essays about the meaning and career of photographs. It begins with the famous In Plato's Caveessay, then offers five other prose meditations on this topic, and concludes with a fascinating and far-reaching Brief Anthology of Quotations.

Author: Susan Sontag
Publisher: Picador USA
Published: 08/25/2001
Pages: 224
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.46lbs
Size: 8.26h x 5.53w x 0.62d
ISBN: 9780312420093

About the Author

Susan Sontag is the author of four novels, The Benefactor, Death Kit, The Volcano Lover and In America; I, Etcetera, a collection of stories; several plays; and five works of nonfiction, among them Illness as a Metaphor and AIDS and Its Metaphors. In 2001 she was awarded the Jerusalem Prize for the body of her work.