On Photography

  • On Photography
    By Susan Sontag

    Susan Sontag's groundbreaking critique of photography asks forceful questions about the moral and aesthetic issues surrounding this art form.

  • On Photography
    By Susan Sontag

    Winner of the National Book Critics' Circle Award for Criticism.

  • On Photography
    By Walter Benjamin

    Benjamin was in error – Walter Gropius appointed MoholyNagy a master at the Staatliches Bauhaus Weimar, working in typographic design and experimental film. From 1923 to 1925 he was the director of the preliminary course and head of the ...

  • On Photography: A Philosophical Inquiry
    By Diarmuid Costello

    This sets the scene for the contemporary stand-off between "sceptical" and "non-sceptical" Orthodoxy in the work of Roger Scruton and Kendall Walton, and a New Theory of Photography taking its cue from László Moholy-Nagy and Patrick ...

  • On Photography
    By Susan Sontag

    Winner of the National Book Critics' Circle Award for Criticism.

  • On Photography: A Philosophical Inquiry
    By Diarmuid Costello

    you will have either conceived photography as a means for delivering photographs (defined in such and such a way), or conceived photographs as the product of a process called photography (understood in such and such terms).

  • On Photography
    By Susan Sontag

    that inexorably promotes the entire history of photography. Small wonder that photography critics and photographers seem anxious. Underlying many of the recent defenses of photography is the fear that photography is already a senile art ...

  • On Photography
    By Susan Sontag

    Winner of the National Book Critics' Circle Award for Criticism.

  • On Photography
    By Susan Sontag

    A study of the force of photographic images which are continually inserted between experience and reality.

  • On Photography
    By Susan Sontag

    First published in 1973, this is a study of the force of photographic images which are continually inserted between experience and reality. Sontag develops further the concept of transparency.