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Published by Penguin Bolsillo · Biography and literary studies · ISBN 9788483467794

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A collection of essays published in 1977, drawn from pieces Sontag had written for The New York Review of Books since 1973. It looks at the history and role of photography in the society of its time: it contrasts Diane Arbus's work with Depression-era documentary photography and asks how the sheer number of images changes the way we see the world and understand reality.

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Who it's for
For readers interested in photography, visual culture or essays of ideas, rather than technique. Across six chapters it also discusses photography and politics, and the tension between recording an event and stepping in.
Why people still read it
It won the 1977 National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism, and its ideas became part of the standard toolkit of people who write about photography. Some reviewers questioned its academic rigour, and Sontag herself revisited some of its claims in Regarding the Pain of Others (2003).

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