On Photography comprises a collection of essays that Sontag originally published in the New York Review of Books between 19. “While most critics were worrying about photography’s status as art, Sontag was thinking about photography in relation to consumer culture.” “Sontag was prescient in her understanding of photography’s role in contemporary life,” says Mia Fineman, a photography curator at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, who has contributed to the first ever illustrated edition of Sontag’s now seminal 1977 book, to be released on 13 September by the Folio Society. But Sontag understood how photography acted as an “exemplary activity” in society-one that uniquely explored “everything that is brilliant and ingenious and poetic and pleasureful”, she told High Times. Photography was considered an illegitimate art form by many of her art critic contemporaries. “The subject of photography is a form of access to contemporary ways of feeling and thinking,” she said. Similarly, she insisted to The New York Times that she was not writing about photography, but about “the way we are now”. “It’s not about photography,” Sontag kept saying. In the March 1978 issue of High Times magazine, Susan Sontag gave a rare interview about her new book, called On Photography.
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