On Photography Summary
Susan Sontag

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On Photography Summary

Susan Sontag's 1977 monograph On Photography is composed of six named chapters, or essays, which form a weakly related progression from conceptualization through history and implementation, to the then-current understanding of photography as a process and an art form. Sontag suggests that the central tension in all of photography is one of self-identification—is it merely a mimetic program of using a machine to manufacture representative images, or is it a...

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Susan Sontag Biographies (3)

Susan Sontag

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Among the literary stars of the radical 1960s, Susan Sontag (born 1933) produced numerous works evaluating and commenting on contemporary life and literature. Her essays appeared in nearly every major... Read more

Susan Sontag

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Susan Sontag, cultural critic, essayist, novelist, and filmmaker, was born 16 January 1933 in New York City. She grew up in Tucson, Arizona, and Los Angeles, California, and at the age of fifteen (194... Read more

Susan Sontag

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Although Susan Sontag is best known as a critic, she has more than once expressed regret for having devoted so much time to having written the essays that brought her renown. As she once explained to ... Read more

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Critical Essay by Robert Melville

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Susan Sontag claims in her passage, On Photography, that photography limits our understanding of the world. However, the truth is that photography enhanced our understanding of the world. It allows u... Read more

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