{"product_id":"on-photography","title":"On Photography","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eA new edition of Susan Sontag's groundbreaking critique of photography--its problems, politics, and possibilities.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"To photograph is to appropriate the thing photographed,\" Sontag writes in the opening pages of \u003ci\u003eOn Photography\u003c\/i\u003e, 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWith 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.","brand":"Picador USA","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51661402177826,"sku":"9781250374745","price":19.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/8637\/3154\/files\/imageloader_60e7187a-fc8c-45f7-9bbd-f14c7fd3f65e.jpg?v=1779453237","url":"https:\/\/godmothers.com\/products\/on-photography","provider":"Godmothers","version":"1.0","type":"link"}