On Photography

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.

出版者:Penguin Classics

作者:[美] 苏珊·桑塔格

页数:224

出版时间:2008

价格:GBP 9.99

装帧:Paperback

isbn号码:9780141035789

图书标签:摄影SusanSontagphotography艺术Photography苏珊桑塔格美国理论

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.

读后感

《论摄影》 苏珊•桑塔格 黄灿然 译 上海译文出版社 ISBN 978-7-5327-4410-7 照片在教导我们新的视觉准则的同时，也改变并扩大我们对什么才值得看和我们有权利去看什么的观念。 照片篡改世界的规模，但照片本身也被缩减、被放大、被裁剪、被修饰、被窜改、被装扮。它们衰老...  

"知识分子热衷于讨论摄影的意义，于是摄影师按下快门的手越来越犹疑，这种情况发展下去，可能导致摄影两极分化，到最后只剩下两种人：新闻摄影师和哲学家。"（赫尔穆特.纽顿） ◎闭眼的方式 "人们为事物拍照是为了将其赶出心中，我的故事则是一种闭眼的方式。"（卡夫卡） ...  

在一个充斥着假象的世界里，在真理被扭曲的时代，她致力于维护自由思想的尊严 她是指苏珊·桑塔格(Susan Sontag),论摄影(On Photography)一书的作者。本书透过对摄影这一动作/事件的阐述将一些对人类社会及文化发展的思考清晰展现。 全书分为六个章节，分别阐述一个主题，我...  

这篇读后感很难下笔，我能写什么呢？论《论摄影》？这是个冷笑话。 《论摄影》是一本很难读的书，我拖拖拉拉的看了一个多月，最后还是没能看完。有人表示黄灿然的译文读起来晦涩难懂，立刻被群众喷得狗血淋头，于是我怕怕的闭嘴，只恨自己的理解能力有限，学术水平...  

首先，插入一句，长乐路之男(上海)同学认为关于此书“编者懒惰得没有插入一幅摄影家的作品” ，是一大遗憾，我觉得很可笑。这书的英文原版也没有任何摄影作品的，这么说是不是作者susan本人太懒惰了呢？ 　　 我当初最开始在书店翻这书的时候，其实偏偏它通篇一张照片都没有...  

用户评价

最后对于中国 说的不要太准确

非常好，句句经典。

桑塔格在对比“工业社会”与“非工业社会”的时候，不免有些东方主义吧。同样的简化也存在于她对中国的讨论中。很明显，她是通过一种既定的过滤系统来看非西方世界的。很好奇这本1977年出版的书于海德格尔1977年发表的World Picture的文章之间的关系。个人认为本书中的观点不是很新。基本没有离开巴赞1960年那篇the ontology of photographic image的影子。萨义德的东方主义1978年出版，时间差是桑塔格唯一的脱罪证明。

论述严谨且平易近人，语言丰满有时辛辣，引经据典，与绘画作比较，就是有点啰嗦，比如桑塔格对于摄影超现实本质的看法，很多重复。摄影的本质是衰败和拼贴。对于旅游摄影的嘲讽力max，非常喜欢~如果她活到现在，很想看她如何分析自拍。

To photograph people is to violate them, by seeing them as they never see themselves, by having knowledge of them that they can never have; it turns people into objects that can be symbolically possessed. Just as a camera is a sublimation of the gun, to photograph someone is a subliminal murder - a soft murder, appropriate to a sad, frightened time