”Det hela började med en essä kring några av de problem – estetiska och moraliska – som framkommit av att vi har fotografiska bilder överallt omkring oss, men ju mer jag funderade på vad fotografier är, desto mer komplexa och tankeväckande blev de.” Susan Sontags Om fotografi (1977) är ett av 1900-talets viktigaste bidrag till essäkonsten, en levande klassiker med relevans också för vår digitala bildkultur. I denna nyöversatta utgåva presenteras boken tillsammans med syskonessän Att betrakta andras lidande (2003). Tillsammans visar de på Sontags intellektuella bredd och utveckling: från en primärt filosofisk hållning, till en etisk och politisk läsning av fotokonstens uppfordrande väsen.

Against Interpretation was Susan Sontag’s first collection of essays and is a modern classic. Originally published in 1966, it has never gone out of print and has influenced generations of readers all over the world. It includes the famous essays “Notes on Camp” and “Against Interpretation,” as well as her impassioned discussions of Sartre, Camus, Simone Weil, Godard, Beckett, Levi-Strauss, science fiction movies, psychoanalysis, and contemporary religious thought.

Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for CriticismA new edition of Susan Sontag’s groundbreaking critique of photography—its problems, politics, and possibilities.“To photograph is to appropriate the thing photographed,” Sontag writes in the opening pages of On Photography, which went on to influence generations of theorists, film critics, and readers everywhere. Originally published in the 1970s, her groundbreaking collection remains uncannily prescient and profoundly precise.With her singular searching eye, and her refusal to buckle under received wisdom, she presents a rousing critique of the functions of imagery—to seduce, to advertise, to evoke, to commemorate, to conspire, to conceal—across six essays. The result is a damning portrait of the ways we use imagery to manufacture reality and authority that feels as if it were written today.

”Det hela började med en essä kring några av de problem – estetiska och moraliska – som framkommit av att vi har fotografiska bilder överallt omkring oss, men ju mer jag funderade på vad fotografier är, desto mer komplexa och tankeväckande blev de.” Susan Sontags Om fotografi (1977) är ett av 1900-talets viktigaste bidrag till essäkonsten, en levande klassiker med relevans också för vår digitala bildkultur. I denna nyöversatta utgåva presenteras boken tillsammans med syskonessän Att betrakta andras lidande (2003). Tillsammans visar de på Sontags intellektuella bredd och utveckling: från en primärt filosofisk hållning, till en etisk och politisk läsning av fotokonstens uppfordrande väsen.

Against Interpretation was Susan Sontag’s first collection of essays and is a modern classic. Originally published in 1966, it has never gone out of print and has influenced generations of readers all over the world. It includes the famous essays “Notes on Camp” and “Against Interpretation,” as well as her impassioned discussions of Sartre, Camus, Simone Weil, Godard, Beckett, Levi-Strauss, science fiction movies, psychoanalysis, and contemporary religious thought.

Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for CriticismA new edition of Susan Sontag’s groundbreaking critique of photography—its problems, politics, and possibilities.“To photograph is to appropriate the thing photographed,” Sontag writes in the opening pages of On Photography, which went on to influence generations of theorists, film critics, and readers everywhere. Originally published in the 1970s, her groundbreaking collection remains uncannily prescient and profoundly precise.With her singular searching eye, and her refusal to buckle under received wisdom, she presents a rousing critique of the functions of imagery—to seduce, to advertise, to evoke, to commemorate, to conspire, to conceal—across six essays. The result is a damning portrait of the ways we use imagery to manufacture reality and authority that feels as if it were written today.