On Photography
- Publisher : Penguin Random House
- Publishing year : September 1979
- Binding : Paperback
- ISBN : 9780140053975
- Imprint : Penguin Books
- Age Group : Adult
- Language : English
In this essential and revelatory volume, Susan Sontag confronts important questions surrounding the power dynamics betwe ...
In this essential and revelatory volume, Susan Sontag confronts important questions surrounding the power dynamics between photographer and subject, the blurred boundary between lived events and recreated images, and the desires that lead us to record our lives
Susan Sontag was born in Manhattan in 1933 and studied at the universities of Chicago, Harvard and Oxford. Her non-fiction works include A gainst 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.
