How do we see the world around us? "The Penguin on Design" series includes the works of creative thinkers whose writings on art, design and the media have changed our vision forever. Susan Sontag's groundbreaking critique of photography asks forceful questions about the moral and aesthetic issues surrounding this art form. Photographs are everywhere. They have the power to shoc...
How do we see the world around us? "The Penguin on Design" series includes the works of creative thinkers whose writings on art, design and the media have changed our vision forever. Susan Sontag's groundbreaking critique of photography asks forceful questions about the moral and aesthetic issues surrounding this art form. Photographs are everywhere. They have the power to shock, idealize or seduce, they create a sense of nostalgia and act as a memorial, and they can be used as evidence against us or to identify us. In six incisive essays, Sontag examines the ways in which we use these omnipresent images to manufacture a sense of reality and authority in our lives.
How do we see the world around us? The Penguin on Design series includes the works of creative thinkers whose writings on art, design and the media have changed our vision forever.
Susan Sontag’s groundbreaking critique of photography asks forceful questions about the moral and aesthetic issues surrounding this art form. Photographs are everywhere. They have the power to shock,...
How do we see the world around us? The Penguin on Design series includes the works of creative thinkers whose writings on art, design and the media have changed our vision forever.
Susan Sontag’s groundbreaking critique of photography asks forceful questions about the moral and aesthetic issues surrounding this art form. Photographs are everywhere. They have the power to shock, idealize or seduce, they create a sense of nostalgia and act as a memorial, and they can be used as evidence against us or to identify us. In six incisive essays, Sontag examines the ways in which we use these omnipresent images to manufacture a sense of reality and authority in our lives.
苏珊•桑塔格在In Plato’s Cave里面写道:The photograph is also a tool of power because you own it when you shoot it. 这让我开始思考照片和爱欲的关系。很显然,他们最初的共同之处在于同样用了shoot这个动词,他们都意味着占有。而通过图像,就是一种意淫的占有,它...
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透过照片看美国,昏暗地 Edward Steichen 拍摄的 放在公寓楼走火通道上的牛奶瓶,1915.(p46) Walker Evans was a renowned American photographer known for his black-and-white images documenting the impact of the Great Depression. Alfred Stieglitz 的《摄影作品》...
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0 有用 S. 2012-08-13 04:59:25
读了几遍中文版 想读英文版
1 有用 teenytiny Adel 2011-12-16 18:09:34
一個女知識份子假裝像男人一樣寫作 聰明的女生讀了都愛不釋手 句句好似quotation
0 有用 那会儿不知道你 2024-09-03 00:11:23 四川
买了!等到了我读读~
0 有用 Finsurdity 2017-05-09 16:01:16
对现代人来说书中的partial conclusion似乎并不那么适用。不过作者的观察力和文艺化的思维方式读起来还是很有参考价值的。
0 有用 Bejdlxl 2022-01-26 19:59:39
Sontag does not know a thing about photography.