On Photography Susan Sontag Summary
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On Photography by Susan Sontag | Summary & Study Guide $9.99 Susan Sontag’s 1977 monograph On Photography is composed of six named chapters, or essays, which form a weakly related progression from conceptualization through history and implementation, to the then-current understanding of photography as a process and an art form. Sontag suggests that the central tension in all of photography is one of self-identification–is it merely a mimetic program of usi… |
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On Photography By Sontag, Susan $21.91 A collection of acclaimed essays explores the aesthetic and moral problems raised by the presence and authority of the photographic image in modernday life, considers the relation of photography to art, conscience, and knowledge, and examines the works of major photographers. Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award. Reprint. Author: Sontag, Susan Publication Date: 2001/09/01 Number of Pages: 208 Binding Type: Paperbound Language: English Depth: 0.75 Width: 5.50 Height: 8.25 |
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Sobre la fotografia/ On Photography By Sontag, Susan $21.35 Author: Sontag, Susan Publication Date: 2008/10/30 Number of Pages: 203 Binding Type: Paperback Language: Spanish Depth: 0.50 Width: 5.00 Height: 7.50 |
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The Scandal of Susan Sontag $110.01 Susan Sontag (1933-2004) spoke of the promiscuity of art and literature& mdash;the willingness of great artists and writers to scandalize their spectators through critical frankness, complexity, and beauty. Sontag’s life and thought were no less promiscuous. She wrote deeply and engagingly about a range of subjects& mdash;theater, sex, politics, novels, torture, and illness& mdash;and courted celebrity and controversy both publicly and privately. Throughout her career, she not only earned adulation but also provoked scorn. Her living was the embodiment of scandal. In this collection, Terry Castle, Nancy K. Miller, Wayne Koestenbaum, E. Ann Kaplan, and other leading scholars revisit Sontag’s groundbreaking life and work. "Against Interpretation," "Notes on Camp," "Letter from Hanoi," "On Photography," "Illness as Metaphor," "I, Etcetera," and "The Volcano Lover"& mdash;these works form the center of essays no less passionate and imaginative than Sontag herself. Debating questions raised by the thinker’s own images and identities, including her sexuality, these works question Sontag’s status as a female intellectual and her parallel interest in ambitious and prophetic fictional women; her ambivalence toward popular culture; and her personal and professional "scandals." Paired with rare photographs and illustrations, this timely anthology expands our understanding of Sontag’s images and power. |
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At the Same Time : Essays and Speeches by Sontag, Susan Rieff, David Edition , 0 $13.49 One of America ‘s best-known and most admired writers, Susan Sontag was also a leading commentator on contemporary culture. Her books include four novels and seven works of non-fiction, among them Regarding the Pain of Others, On Photography and Illness as Metaphor, all of which are published by Penguin. Susan Sontag died in December 2004. At the Same Time includes a preface written by Susan Sontag’s only son, David Rieff. |
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On Photography, by Sontag $10.5 This book is in New – Excellent condition |
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Susan Sontag $374.72 This book is in Used condition |
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Sempre Susan: A Memoir of Susan Sontag $15.99 Sigrid Nunez was a young writer new to the New York literary world when she met Susan Sontag, already a legendary figure known for her polemical essays, her blindingly bright intelligence, and her edgy personal style. A magnetic presence, intimidating and blunt, Sontag established herself as the main interpreter of the avant-garde with Against Interpretation-the book, claims Nunez, that made her want to become a writer. Through her relationship with Sontag’s son, the writer David Rieff, Nunez acquired an intimate sense of her subject. Her memoir, at once piercing and deeply empathic, gives a sharp sense of the charged, polarizing atmosphere that enveloped Sontag whenever she published a book, gave a lecture, or simply walked into a room. Published six years after the author’s death, Sempre Susan is a startlingly truthful portrait of this outsized personality, who, through sheer force of will, made being an intellectual a glamorous occupation. |
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Styles of Radical Will By Sontag, Susan $22.67 A powerful collection of essays reveals the authors interpretation of aesthetics and morality in film, literature, and politics, and provides a provocative study on pornography. Reprint. 10,000 first printing. Author: Sontag, Susan Publication Date: 2002/03/01 Number of Pages: 274 Binding Type: Paperback Language: English Depth: 1.00 Width: 5.50 Height: 8.25 |
