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On Photography
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Art Criticism & TheoryPhotography History & Criticism
Publisher Price: $19.00
ISBN13: 9780312420093
Publisher: Picador USA
Published: Aug 25 2001
Pages: 224
Weight: 0.46
Height: 0.62 Width: 5.53 Depth: 8.26
Language: English
Winner of the National Book Critics' Circle Award for Criticism.
One of the most highly regarded books of its kind, Susan Sontag's On Photography 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.
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