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On Photography is a 1977 collection of essays by Susan Sontag. There are no illustrations. In the book, Sontag expresses her views on the corrosive role of photography in affluent mass-media capitalist societies, and refutes the idea that photography is just a sort of note taking. Sontag uses Depression-era documentary photography commissioned by the Farm Security Administration as an example of the "predatory" nature of photographers, and claims that the FSA employees - most of whom were... full article at wikipedia
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1990
  • 0385267061
1977
  • 0440566967
1977
  • 0440566967, 0385287577
  • 0374226261
2001
  • 9780312420093
1979
  • 0140053972
2002
  • 9780141187167
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