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First published in 1973, this is a study of the force of photographic images which are continually inserted between experience and reality. Sontag develops further the concept of transparency. When anything can be photographed and photography has destroyed the boundaries and definitions of art, a viewer can approach a photography freely with no expectations of discovering what it means. This collection of six lucid essays, the most famous being Plato's Cave make up a deep exploration of how the
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- Author
- Sontag, Susan
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd; Penguin Classics
- Published
- 1979
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780141187167
- Category
- art
- Subjects
- Photography, Fiction, Philosophy
- Rating
- 3.83 / 5 (23,899 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-13
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