THE ITEM:
"OVER FOTOGRAFIE"
DUTCH EDITION OF "ON PHOTOGRAPHY"
On Photography is a 1977 collection of essays by Susan Sontag. It originally appeared as a series of essays in the New York Review of Books between 1973 and 1977.
In the book, Sontag expresses her views on the history and present-day role of photography in capitalist societies as of the 1970s. Sontag discusses many examples of modern photography. Among these, she contrasts Diane Arbus's work with that of Depression-era documentary photography commissioned by the Farm Security Administration.
She also explores the history of American photography in relation to the idealistic notions of America put forth by Walt Whitman and traces these ideas through to the increasingly cynical aesthetic notions of the 1970s, particularly in relation to Arbus and Andy Warhol.
Sontag argues that the proliferation of photographic images had begun to establish within people a "chronic voyeuristic relation" to the world around them. Among the consequences of photography is that the meaning of all events is leveled and made equal. This idea did not originate with Sontag, who often synthesized European cultural thinkers with her particular eye toward the United States.
As she argues, perhaps originally with regard to photography, the medium fostered an attitude of anti-intervention. Sontag says that the individual who seeks to record cannot intervene, and that the person who intervenes cannot then faithfully record, for the two aims contradict each other. In this context, she discusses in some depth the relationship of photography to politics
(WIKIPEDIA)
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THE WRITER:
SUSAN SONTAG
Susan Sontag (January 16, 1933 – December 28, 2004) was an American writer, philosopher, and political activist. She mostly wrote essays, but also published novels; she published her first major work, the essay "Notes on 'Camp'", in 1964. Her best-known works include the critical works Against Interpretation (1966), Styles of Radical Will (1968), On Photography (1977), and Illness as Metaphor (1978), as well as the fictional works The Way We Live Now (1986), The Volcano Lover (1992), and In America (1999).
Sontag was active in writing and speaking about, or travelling to, areas of conflict, including during the Vietnam War and the Siege of Sarajevo. She wrote extensively about photography, culture and media, AIDS and illness, human rights, and leftist ideology. Her essays and speeches drew controversy, and she has been described as "one of the most influential critics of her generation."
(WIKIPEDIA)
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COLOPHON:
ORIGINAL TITLE:
ON PHOTOGRAPHY
TRANSLATED INTO THE DUTCH LANGUAGE BY:
HENNY SCHEEPMAKER
COVER DESIGN:
STUDIO JAN DE BOER
COVER PHOTOGRAPHY:
ANNI LEIBOWITZ - HOLLANDSE HOOGTE
THE PRINTER:
KONINKLIJKE WÖHRMANN
ZUTPHEN
ISBN:
978 90 234 2522 9
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THE PUBLISHER:
DE BEZIGE BIJ
AMSTERDAM - ANTWERPEN
ELFDE DRUK
2015
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SIZED:
CENTIMETERS: 12,5 X 20
PAGES: 240
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CONDITION
GENERAL:
GOOD
COVER:
BIT RUBBED, CORNERS AND EDGES LIGHTLY BUMPED WITH SOME TINY DAMAGES
SPINE:
IDEM
PAGES:
HARDLY TO NO SIGNS OF USAGE
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