On Photography

On Photography
Author: Susan Sontag
Publsiher: Unknown
Total Pages: 207
Release: 2001-06
Genre: Electronic Book
ISBN: 0795000502

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Winner of the National Book Critics' Circle Award for Criticism. One of the most highly regarded books of its kind, "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 Cave" essay, then offers five other prose meditations on this topic, and concludes with a fascinating and far-reaching " Brief Anthology of Quotations."

On Photography

On Photography
Author: Susan Sontag
Publsiher: Unknown
Total Pages: 207
Release: 2024
Genre: Photography
ISBN: OCLC:889842004

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This is a study of the force of photographic images which are continually inserted between experience and reality. Sontag examines the ways in which we use these omnipresent images to manufacture a sense of reality and authority in our lives.

On Photography

On Photography
Author: Susan Sontag
Publsiher: Macmillan
Total Pages: 224
Release: 2001-08-25
Genre: Art
ISBN: 0312420099

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A series of essays about the meaning and career of photographs.

On Photography

On Photography
Author: Susan Sontag
Publsiher: Delta
Total Pages: 232
Release: 1977
Genre: Fotography, Artistic
ISBN: UCSD:31822035131978

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Winner of the National Book Critics' Circle Award for Criticism. One of the most highly regarded books of its kind, "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 Cave" essay, then offers five other prose meditations on this topic, and concludes with a fascinating and far-reaching " Brief Anthology of Quotations."

Regarding the Pain of Others

Regarding the Pain of Others
Author: Susan Sontag
Publsiher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Total Pages: 144
Release: 2013-10-01
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9781466853577

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A brilliant, clear-eyed new consideration of the visual representation of violence in our culture--its ubiquity, meanings, and effects Watching the evening news offers constant evidence of atrocity--a daily commonplace in our "society of spectacle." But are viewers inured -or incited--to violence by the daily depiction of cruelty and horror? Is the viewer's perception of reality eroded by the universal availability of imagery intended to shock? In her first full-scale investigation of the role of imagery in our culture since her now-classic book On Photography defined the terms of the debate twenty-five years ago, Susan Sontag cuts through circular arguments about how pictures can inspire dissent or foster violence as she takes a fresh look at the representation of atrocity--from Goya's The Disasters of War to photographs of the American Civil War, lynchings of blacks in the South, and Dachau and Auschwitz to contemporary horrific images of Bosnia, Sierra Leone, Rwanda, and New York City on September 11, 2001. As John Berger wrote when On Photography was first published, "All future discussions or analysis of the role of photography in the affluent mass-media societies is now bound to begin with her book." Sontag's new book, a startling reappraisal of the intersection of "information", "news," "art," and politics in the contemporary depiction of war and disaster, will be equally essential. It will forever alter our thinking about the uses and meanings of images in our world.

Morals of Vision

Morals of Vision
Author: Anonim
Publsiher: Steidl
Total Pages: 24
Release: 2019-02
Genre: Electronic Book
ISBN: 3958293905

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When William Eggleston's second artist's book Morals of Visions was first published in 1978 in a limited edition of fifteen, only a handful of lucky people were able to obtain it; it has since become a collectible rarity. That is now to change with this new Steidl edition, which re-imagines Morals of Visions as a trade book for the general public. The original Morals of Vision contains eight color coupler prints of Eggleston's archetypal still lifes, landscapes and portraits which glorify the banal and have since changed the history of color photography. "There is no particular reason to search for meaning," Eggleston has said of his work in general, a sentiment in contrast with the title Morals of Vision which suggests that there are indeed principles of a kind to be learnt from the images in this book. Yet the lessons in photos including those of a broom leaning again a wall, green grain silos in the fading light, and an off-center electric candle complete with fake wax, remain Eggleston's own ironic secret. 'I don't have a burning desire to go out and document anything. It just happens when it happens. It's not a conscious effort, nor is it a struggle.' -William Eggleston

On Photography

On Photography
Author: Susan Sontag
Publsiher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Total Pages: 224
Release: 2011-04-01
Genre: Photography
ISBN: 9781429957113

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Winner of the National Book Critics' Circle Award for Criticism. One of the most highly regarded books of its kind, 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 Cave"essay, then offers five other prose meditations on this topic, and concludes with a fascinating and far-reaching "Brief Anthology of Quotations."

Portraits in Life and Death

Portraits in Life and Death
Author: Peter Hujar
Publsiher: Unknown
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2024-12-10
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1324092173

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A new edition of the cult classic photography book by the legendary Peter Hujar, featuring a foreword by Pulitzer Prize winner Benjamin Moser.