ON PHOTOGRAPHY
by Sontag, Susan
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- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Very good in very good jacket.
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Silver Spring, Maryland, United States
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About This Item
Though Morris's underlining and marginal reactions travel through the whole work, the tracks of his closest attention can be seen whenever Sontag considers the nature, the power, and the utility of political and journalistic photography: photography of atrocities, of war, of suffering; photography designed to communicate, to alarm, to shock the conscience. Here, the lines and phrases marked out for underlining speak most plainly of what animates and troubles Morris, a lifelong Quaker and pacifist: "Photographs furnish evidence"; "[T]he camera record justifies"; "Photographing is essentially an act of non-intervention"; photography, says Sontag, cannot be an act of passive observation, it is "a way of at least tacitly, often explicitly, encouraging whatever is going on to keep happening. In the margins, Morris wonders: "Fair?"
A moving dialogue between one of the foundational works of photo criticism and one of that form's most important editors. 8.25'' x 5.5''. Original grey cloth with silver-lettered spine. In original unclipped ($7.95) dust jacket, designed by Jacqueline Schuman. 207, [1] pages. Signed and dated by Sontag in blue pen on front free endpaper ("Susan Sontag 2/26/78 D.C."). Pencil underlining and marginalia throughout by Morris, with occasional later pencil notations in a different hand. Mild spine lean. Jacket with shallow edgewear, several small chips and tears.
Synopsis
Essays explore the aesthetic and moral problems raised by the presence of the photographic image in modern-day life; consider the relation of photography to art, conscience, and knowledge; and examine the works of major photographers.
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- Bookseller
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 46490
- Title
- ON PHOTOGRAPHY
- Author
- Sontag, Susan
- Book Condition
- Used - Very good in very good jacket.
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- Publisher
- Farrar, Straus and Giroux
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1977
- Keywords
- 20th century,1970s,Photography,Vietnam War,Association Copy,Woman Author,Philosophy
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