{"product_id":"on-photography-fsg-80th-anniversary-special-edition","title":"On Photography: FSG 80th Anniversary Special Edition","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\" ( The New Yorker ).\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"To photograph is to appropriate the thing photographed,\" Susan Sontag writes in the opening pages of On Photography, 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 sixformidable 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\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSoftcover\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e224 Pages\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMeasures W13.67 × H20.96 cm \/ W5.38 × H8.25 in\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"Raincoast","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47712206651566,"sku":"9780374622442","price":26.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0163\/9128\/files\/Books-July-2026_0000_Susan-Sontag-On-Photography.jpg?v=1783552108","url":"https:\/\/www.oldfaithfulshop.com\/products\/on-photography-fsg-80th-anniversary-special-edition","provider":"Old Faithful Shop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}