Cantitate/Preț
Produs

On Photography: Penguin Modern Classics

Autor Susan Sontag
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 25 sep 2008
Susan Sontag'sOn Photographyis 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.
'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
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 themRegarding the Pain of Others,On Photography,Illness as Metaphor,At the Same Time,Against Interpretation and Other EssaysandReborn: Early Diaries 1947-1963, all of which are published by Penguin. A further eight books, including the collections of essaysUnder the Sign of SaturnandWhere the Stress Falls, and the novelsThe Volcano LoverandThe Benefactor, are available from Penguin Modern Classics.
Citește tot Restrânge

Toate formatele și edițiile

Toate formatele și edițiile Preț Express
Paperback (2) 5861 lei  3-5 săpt. +603 lei  7-13 zile
  Penguin Books – 25 sep 2008 5861 lei  3-5 săpt. +603 lei  7-13 zile
  Penguin Books – 27 sep 1979 6438 lei  3-5 săpt. +635 lei  7-13 zile

Din seria Penguin Modern Classics

Preț: 5861 lei

Puncte Express: 88

Preț estimativ în valută:
1123 1216$ 963£

Carte disponibilă

Livrare economică 18 aprilie-02 mai
Livrare express 04-10 aprilie pentru 1602 lei

Preluare comenzi: 021 569.72.76

Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780141035789
ISBN-10: 0141035781
Pagini: 224
Dimensiuni: 111 x 181 x 16 mm
Greutate: 0.16 kg
Editura: Penguin Books
Colecția Penguin Classics
Seria Penguin Modern Classics

Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

Notă biografică

Susan Sontag was 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.


Descriere

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.

'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

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 OthersOn PhotographyIllness as MetaphorAt the Same TimeAgainst Interpretation and Other Essays and Reborn: Early Diaries 1947-1963, all of which are published by Penguin. A further eight books, including the collections of essays Under the Sign of Saturn and Where the Stress Falls, and the novels The Volcano Lover and The Benefactor, are available from Penguin Modern Classics.