Winner of the National Book Critics' Circle Award for Criticism.
One of the most highly regarded books of its kind, On Photography first appeared in 1977 and is described by its author as “a progress of essays about the meaning and career of photographs.” It begins with the famous “In Plato’s Cave”essay, then offers five other prose meditations on this topic, and concludes with a fascinating and far-reaching “Brief Anthology of Quotations.”
Photography implies that we know about the world if we accept it as the camer...
The particular qualities and intentions of photographs tend to be swallowed u...
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Velma Tsau
Photography as a medium possesses the unique potential to reach and fascinate a single individual as well as a massive crowd, all the while inspiring those b...
Ray Wei
不是书评的书评：《论摄影》 by Ray Wei 苏珊·桑塔格的这部书看了几遍以后，在我眼里渐渐浮出了一幅环境肖像－－主体是摄影，背景是七十年代的美国－－桑塔格对摄影描...
blackgin
S.S'book<On Photography>is not only a book that about some of the problems, aesthetic and moral, posed by the omnipresence of photographed images; but the mo...
✨茶娓Charry
不怎么了解摄影基本知识的读起来兴许会比较难懂书中所要表达的一些摄影内涵。也许这是由于英文与中文的文字双关不同所致。 如果要是能流畅的看英文原版还是看原版的好。...
