num_pages: 207
description: Susan Sontag has written four novels, The Benefactor, Death Kit, The Volcano Lover, and In America, which won the 2000 National Book Award for fiction; a collection of stories, I, etcetera; several plays, including Alice in Bed; and five books of essays, among them Against Interpretation, and Illness as Metaphor and AIDS and Its Metaphors. In 2001 she was awarded the Jerusalem Prize for the body of her work.In this book Susan Sontag examines a wide range of problems, both aesthetic and moral, raised by the presence and authority of the photographed image in the lives of everyone today.
language: English
title: Susan Sontag on Photography
titlecomplete: Susan Sontag on Photography
genres: Theory, Art History, Philosophy, Nonfiction, Essays, Classics, Art, Criticism, History, Photography
ratings_count: 47104
awards: awardedAt: 220953600000
name: National Book Critics Circle Award
category: Criticism
publisher: Penguin Books