![]() ![]() ![]() She criticises what she calls the cameras inherent ability to beautify everything before its lens, alluding the the sublime, yet when reviewing the work of Argus is adamant in her perception of ugliness and further she is aware of the growing consensus of controlling the publication of images as they don’t show ‘beauty’. ![]() On the one hand she derides photography’s dramatisation of scenes to engender interest yet writes little of opposing approaches. I came away from the book with a difficulty in actually pinning down the point of Sontag’s writings. Whilst many have attached much acclaim to the book, winning the 1977 National Book Critics Circle Award and as seen in the endorsements of The Times and the Washington Post on the rear cover, I would challenge those opinions. Consisting of Sontag’s essays written for the New York review of Books between 1973-and 1977, the essays are more wonderings on theme of photography than an academic exercise in refining the understanding of the medium. ![]() Sontag’s ‘On Photography’ is often presented as one of the most influential collection of essays on photography. ![]()
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