{"product_id":"on-photography-by-susan-sontag-9781250374745","title":"On Photography","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWinner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA new edition of Susan Sontag's groundbreaking critique of photography—its problems, politics, and possibilities.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"To photograph is to appropriate the thing photographed,\" Sontag writes in the opening pages of \u003cem\u003eOn Photography\u003c\/em\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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47643124596972,"sku":"9781250374745","price":51.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/e8afdece4e966b57808155dbe12f1b0c.jpg?v=1779169681","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/on-photography-by-susan-sontag-9781250374745","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}