Susan Sontag's On Photography is a seminal and groundbreaking work on the subjec
t. Susan Sontag's groundbreaking critique of photography asks forceful questions
about the moral and aesthetic issues surrounding this art form. Photographs are
everywhere, and the 'insatiability of the photographing eye' has profoundly alt
ered our relationship with the world.
Photographs have the power to shock, id
ealize or seduce, they create a sense of nostalgia and act as a memorial, and th
ey can be used as evidence against us or to identify us. In these six incisive e
ssays, Sontag examines the ways in which we use these omnipresent images to manu
facture a sense of reality and authority in our lives. "Sontag offers enough foo
d for thought to satisfy the most intellectual of appetites".
