书名：On Photography论摄影

作者：Susan Sontag苏珊·桑塔格
出版社名称：Penguin Classics
出版时间：2008
语种：英文
ISBN：9780141035789
商品尺寸：10.9 x 1 x 17.8 cm
包装：平装
页数：224
On Photography《论摄影》不仅是一本论述摄影的经典著作，而且是一本论述广泛意义上的现代文化的经典著作。

桑塔格深入地探讨摄影的本质，包括摄影是不是艺术，摄影与绘画的互相影响，摄影与真实世界的关系，摄影的捕食性和侵略性。摄影表面上是反映现实，但实际上摄影影像自成一个世界，一个影像世界，企图取代真实世界。由此，谈论摄影亦成为讨论世界的一种方式。
《论摄影》初版于一九七七年，轰动一时，引起广泛的讨论，井荣获当年的全国图书批评界奖，至今仍被誉为“摄影界的《圣经》”。

Susan Sontag’s On Photography is a seminal and groundbreaking work on the subject.
Susan Sontag’s groundbreaking critique of photography asks forceful questions about the moral and aesthetic issues surrounding this art form. Photographs are everywhere, and the ‘insatiability of the photographing eye’ has profoundly altered our relationship with the world. Photographs have the power to shock, idealize or seduce, they create a sense of nostalgia and act as a memorial, and they can be used as evidence against us or to identify us. In these six incisive essays, Sontag examines the ways in which we use these omnipresent images to manufacture a sense of reality and authority in our lives.
One of America’s best-known and most admired writers, Susan Sontag was also a leading commentator on contemporary culture until her death in December 2004. Her books include four novels and numerous works of non-fiction, among them Regarding the Pain of Others, On Photography, Illness as Metaphor, At the Same Time, Against Interpretation and Other Essays and Reborn: Early Diaries 1947-1963, all of which are published by Penguin. 

Review
“Sontag offers enough food for thought to satisfy the most intellectual of appetites.” —The Times

“A brilliant analysis of the profound changes photographic images have made in our way of looking at the world, and at ourselves.” —Washington Post

“The most original and illuminating study of the subject.” —New Yorker
In Plato’s Cave在柏拉图的洞穴里

America, Seen Through Photographs, Darkly透过照片看美国，昏暗地
Melancholy Objects忧伤的物件
The Heroism of Vision视域的英雄主义
Photographic Evangels摄影信条
The Image-World影像世界
A Brief Anthology of Quotations引语选粹
苏珊·桑塔格（Susan Sontag），1933年生于美国纽约，毕业于芝加哥大学。1993年当选为美国文学艺术学院院士。她是美国声名卓著的“新知识分子”，与西蒙娜·波伏瓦、汉娜·阿伦特并称为西方当代非常重要的女知识分子，被誉为“美国公众的良心”。2000年获美国国家图书奖，2001年获耶路撒冷国际文学奖，2003年获德国图书大奖——德国书业和平奖。2004年12月28日病逝于纽约。

Susan Sontagwas born in Manhattan in 1933 and studied at the universities of Chicago, Harvard and Oxford. Her non-fiction works include Against Interpretation, On Photography, Illness as Metaphor, AIDS and its Metaphors and Regarding the Pain of Others. She is also the author of four novels, a collection of stories and several plays. Her books are translated into thirty-two languages. In 2001 she was awarded the Jerusalem Prize for the body of her work, and in 2003 she received the Prince of Asturias Prize for Literature and the Peace Prize of the German Book Trade. She died in December 2004.