by Susan Sontag · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788420402123
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About Photography, the most emblematic book by a writer committed to the hottest topics of her time, which closes with a question: to what extent can a camera lie? *About Photography*, published for the first time in 1973, was a revolutionary work in photographic criticism. With it, Susan Sontag raised unavoidable questions, on the moral and aesthetic level, about this art form. There are photographs everywhere; they have the power to impact, idealize or seduce, they can provoke nostalgia or serve as a reminder, and they stand as proof against us or as a means to identify us. In these six penetrating chapters, Sontag asks how the omnipresence of these images affects our way of seeing the world, and how we have come to depend on them to create notions of reality and authority.
Susan Lee Sontag was an American writer and critic. She primarily wrote essays, but also published novels; she published her first major work, the essay "Notes on 'Camp' ", in 1964. Her best-known works include the critical works Against Interpretation (1966), On Photography (1977), Illness as Metaphor (1978) and Regarding the Pain of Others (2003), the short story "The Way We Live Now" (1986) and the novels The Volcano Lover (1992) and In America (1999).
