ON PHOTOGRAPHY
Folio Society, 2022. First Edition. Hardcover. First and only printing of the Folio Society Edition. 224pp. + 21 B/W archival photo plates. 8vo, 6.75' x 9.5', black cloth with silver gilt stamped lettering and top edge silver gilt, b/w photo mounted to front cover. FINE copy, entirely clean and sharp; slipcase with some trivial scuffing, clean and sound otherwise. 'Susan Sontag was one of the most dazzling and influential commentators on the art and culture of her time. Published in 1977 and still astonishingly prescient, her groundbreaking study, On Photography, was one of the first books to ask forceful questions about this modern art form: its power to shock, idealise, act as a memorial, as propaganda, to be used as evidence, and to misrepresent – Sontag was amongst the earliest to write about the photograph’s ability to deceive. Sontag explores these moral and aesthetic issues with reference to the work of the great photographers – Steichen, Atget, Lange, Brassai, Arbus and many others – and outlines a thought-provoking history of the medium. This first-ever illustrated edition includes key photographs from prestigious photographic archives, all beautifully reproduced, selected with Mia Fineman, curator of photography at the Met.'. FINE. Item #515316
Price: $750.00