On Photography
by Susan Sontag
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 071391128X
- ISBN 13
- 9780713911282
- Seller
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Rochester, Kent, United Kingdom
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About This Item
In this seminal 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. 207 p. ; 22.5 cm. First UK edition, first printing. Brown cloth boards, unclipped dust jacket (now in a removable protective sleeve). Slight shelf wear and tanning to edges, previous owner's inscription on front free endpaper, tight and square binding. Photographs available on request. All books dispatched same or next working day in robust packaging.
Synopsis
Essays explore the aesthetic and moral problems raised by the presence of the photographic image in modern-day life; consider the relation of photography to art, conscience, and knowledge; and examine the works of major photographers.
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- Bookseller
- Springhead Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 016260
- Title
- On Photography
- Author
- Susan Sontag
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 071391128X
- ISBN 13
- 9780713911282
- Publisher
- Allen Lane, Penguin Books
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1978
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