On Photography
by Sontag, Susan
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0374226261
- ISBN 13
- 9780374226268
- Seller
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Seattle, Washington, United States
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About This Item
N Y: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1978. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. Previous owner's name inside. Full gray cloth boards. Small tears and edge wear to dust jacket. Fifth printing.
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
- Pistil Books Online (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 156854
- Title
- On Photography
- Author
- Sontag, Susan
- Format/Binding
- Hard Cover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0374226261
- ISBN 13
- 9780374226268
- Publisher
- Farrar, Straus & Giroux
- Place of Publication
- N Y
- Date Published
- 1978
- Keywords
- Images, Reality, Relationship, Plato's Cave, Melancholy Objects, Heroism of Vision, photographic Evangels, Image0world, Nadar, Muybridge, Stieglitz, Atget, Paul Strand, Edward Weston, August Sander, Walker Evans, Cartier-Bresson, Robert Frank, Richard Av
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