On Photography: FSG 80th Anniversary Special Edition

Winner 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).

“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...