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Susan Sontag's "On Photography": A Macat Analysis
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Susan Sontag’s 1997 text, On Photography, brought photographic theory into the university classroom with its staunch defence of the medium as art and inspired a new wave of Marxist Criticism in the field. Sontag explains the way in which we are addicted to images and depend on them for knowledge of our surroundings and the problems and challenges this causes.
Already an established academic figure, Sontag brought Walter Benjamin’s theories in into the academic mainstream. The book retains its relevance in the everyday world because of the applicability of its ideas to the world of digital photography.
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Reviews for Susan Sontag's "On Photography"
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- Rating: 1 out of 5 stars1/5I finally finished this book. I definitely didn’t enjoy its content that was contentious, often didn’t make sense and often contradicted itself. As a photographer and teacher of photography I do not recommend it, rather go read On Photography by yourself keeping in mind that it was written in the 70s and gather the large amount of inspiration that book, not this one, has still to give.
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- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5There was a lot of interesting information but the format of the audio book was hard to folow and it finished before reaching the end. There is at least one more section that is not included.
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5It was closely aligned to the content of the book, a critique.