“In 1977 On Photography won her the National Book Critics Circle award for criticism. “I came to realise,” Sontag said of the book, “that I wasn’t writing about photography so much as I was writing about modernity, about the way we are now. The subject of photography is a form of access to contemporary ways of feeling and thinking.” Her later treatise on photography, Regarding the Pain of Others (2003), examined how pictures of warfare were both informed by, and influenced, contemporary political and artistic concerns of those who produce the photographs, and those who in turn view them.”
Susan Sontag, the writer who nudged me to think about photography as a cultural pursuit rather than just a object of desire has died. She was 71. Read all related news stories about Ms. Sontag here.
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d underhill says
can you send me passeges of bood from Susan Sontag’s essays ‘On Photography’1977 she sounds really interesting.
Thanx dunderhill
d underhill says
can you send me passeges of bood from Susan Sontag’s essays ‘On Photography’1977 she sounds really interesting.
Thanx dunderhill