Sontag on photography5/8/2023 ![]() ![]() From the United States to Europe, she approaches the creations of the great names that have left their mark: from Fox Talbot to Henri Cartier-Bresson, via Alfred Stieglitz, Diane Arbus, Eugène Atget, Edward Weston or Nadar. ![]() She analyzes photographic activity since its beginnings, taking us into the great human, social, artistic, aesthetic and technological adventure it represents. Susan Sontag examines the nature of these images, which are at the root of the aesthetic and moral problems that lie at the very heart of our modern societies. These have had a great influence on photographic thought. As the title suggests, the essays deal with the author’s reflections on photography over several years. ![]() Published in 1977, this book is a collection of six essays written by Susan Sontag from 1973 onwards, originally published in The New York Review of Books. ![]()
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