SUSAN SONTAG

PHOTOGRAPHY + REALISM
- Putting yourself in relation to the world
- Abstract
- Scale, Cropping Retouching, Blowing up
- Packaging the world
- Evidence/Surveillance

PHOTOGRAPH + THE REAL
- A photograph seems to be more innocent + accurate than any other media that mimics.

Sontag's Book - On Photograph
- This book gave media students and researchers an entirely different perspective of the camera in the modern world. The book is an exploration of photographs as a collection of the world, mainly by travellers or tourists, and the way we therefore experience it.

What other said about Sontag & On Photography
- "Susan Sontag has written a book of great importance and originality. . . . All future discussion or analysis of the role of photography in the affluent mass-media societies is now bound to begin with her book."
—John Berger

"After Susan Sontag, photography must be written about not only as a force in the arts, but as one that is increasingly powerful in the nature and destiny of our global society."
—Newsweek

"Not many photographs are worth a thousand of (Susan Sontag's) words."
—Robert Hughes, Time Magazine

"On Photography is to my mind the most original and illuminating study of the subject."
—Calvin Trillin, The New Yorker

"Every page of On Photography raises important and exciting questions about its subject and raises them in the best way."
—The New York Times Book Review