Or rather, it seems to conform to her own "sensualistic" view of criticism. It might be better to see the work as an abstract artistic enterprise, as much as it is an intellectual one. She will refer to dozens, or even hundreds of works in a single clause. There is no bibliography, and the works cited in the text are dealt with briskly, treating the previous 100+ years of photography as a whole corpus which the reader is presumed to be familiar with. Though the text is a work of criticism in a broad sense, it is not academic. BONUS: Did Sontag steal all her best ideas from The Kinks? Scholars remain divided.īeginning in 1973 and finishing in 1977, Susan Sontag set about writing a series of 6 essays on Photography for the New York Review of Books."A Brief Anthology of Quotations" (-208)."America, Seen Through Photographs, Darkly" (-48).Links to the Annotations, Sorted by Essay The Essays: Susan Sontag, as painted in 1994 by Juan Bastos A companion to On Photography by Susan Sontag Annotations by Fritz Swanson
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