by Susan Sontag · Edhasa · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788435014175
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«Sobre la fotografía» is Susan Sontag's essay book, published by Edhasa in paperback (217 pages, in Spanish).
In these essays, Susan Sontag analyses the role of photography in contemporary culture and how it conditions our perception of reality. She examines the relationship between the camera and art, consciousness and knowledge, and its link with literature, painting, film or sociology, with questions about the limits of an image's veracity.
Originally published as On Photography in 1973, the book received the National Book Critics Circle Award in 1977. This Spanish edition, translated by Carlos Gardini, appeared in 1996.
For readers of essays and art theory, and for those who want to understand the cultural impact of the photographic image in contemporary society.
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).
