In these six incisive essays, Sontag examines the ways in which we use these omnipresent images to manufacture a sense of reality and authority in our lives. Photographs have the power to shock, idealize or seduce, they create a sense of nostalgia and act as a memorial, and they can be used as evidence against us or to identify us. Photographs are everywhere, and the 'insatiability of the photographing eye' has profoundly altered our relationship with the world. This indicates that modified images are inherited by the authors preference to pose a striking image that attempts to surpass its original. One of the most highly regarded books of its kind, Susan Sontags On Photography first appeared in 1977 and is described by its author as 'a progress of essays about the meaning and career of photographs. Because of the aphoristic style of the writing.
Susan Sontag's groundbreaking critique of photography asks forceful questions about the moral and aesthetic issues surrounding this art form. In Susan Sontag’s, On Photography, she exemplifies how photographs gets blown up, cropped, retouched, doctored, and tricked out (34). Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism. Sontag’s On Photography is made up of seven interconnected but quite separate essays, plus a brief appendix of quotations about photography. Susan Sontag's On Photography is a seminal and groundbreaking work on the subject. On Photography is a collection of essays by American writer, academic, and activist Susan Sontag.
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