{"product_id":"on-photography","title":"On Photography","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinner of the National Book Critics' Circle Award for Criticism, Susan Sontag's influential essays, heralded as \"the most original and illuminating study of the subject\" (\u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/b\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"To photograph is to appropriate the thing photographed,\" Susan Sontag writes in the opening pages of \u003ci\u003eOn Photography\u003c\/i\u003e, a groundbreaking collection which has gone on to influence generations of theorists, critics, and readers everywhere. Published in 1977, Sontag's seminal work, the winner of a National Book Critics Circle Award, remains uncannily prescient and profoundly incisive to this day. With her searching eye and refusal to buckle to received wisdom, Sontag presents a rousing critique of the functions of imagery-to seduce, to advertise, to evoke, to commemorate, to persuade, to deceive-across six formidable essays. The result is a complex portrait of the contradictory ways we use imagery to manufacture reality and authority, conveyed by her singular depth of analysis, that will endure for decades to come.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57490143936885,"sku":"9780374622442","price":19.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780374622442.jpg?v=1786442030","url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/products\/on-photography","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}