About “On Photography”

On Photography is a 1977 collection of essays by Susan Sontag. The essays were originally published between 1973 and 1977 in the New York Review of Books. In the book, Sontag examines the history and role of photography in capitalist societies during the 1970s. She analyzes various examples of modern photography, including a comparison between the work of Diane Arbus and Depression-era documentary photography produced by the Farm Security Administration.

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