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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>Originally published: New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, c1977.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p><b>Winner of the National Book Critics' Circle Award for Criticism</b>. <p/>One of the most highly regarded books of its kind, Susan Sontag's <i>On Photography</i> first appeared in 1977 and is described by its author as a progress of essays about the meaning and career of photographs. It begins with the famous In Plato's Caveessay, then offers five other prose meditations on this topic, and concludes with a fascinating and far-reaching Brief Anthology of Quotations.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br><p>"A brilliant analysis of the profound changes photographic images have made in our way of looking at the world and at ourselves over the last 140 years." --<i>Washington Post Book World</i> <p/>"Every page of <i>On Photography</i> raises important and exciting questions about its subject and raises them in the best way." --<i>The New York Times Book Review</i> <p/>"A book of great importance and originality . . . All future discussion or analysis of the role of photography in the affluent mass-media societies are now bound to begin with her book." --<i>John Berger</i> <p/>"Not many photographs are worth a thousand of [Susan Sontag's] words." --<i>Robert Hughes, Time</i> <p/>"After Sontag, photography must be written about not only as a force in the arts, but as one that is increasingly powerful in the nature and destiny of our global society." --<i>Newsweek</i> <p/>"<i>On Photography</i> is to my mind the most original and illuminating study of the subject." --<i>Calvin Trillin, The New Yorker</i></p><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><p><b>Susan Sontag </b>is the author of four novels, <i>The Benefactor, Death Kit</i>, <i>The Volcano Lover</i> and <i>In America; I, Etcetera</i>, a collection of stories; several plays; and five works of nonfiction, among them <i>Illness as a</i> <i>Metaphor </i>and <i>AIDS and Its Metaphors</i>. In 2001 she was awarded the Jerusalem Prize for the body of her work.</p>

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