On Photography

A brilliant analysis of the profound changes photographic images have made in our way of looking at the world and at ourselves over the last 140 years. -- Washington Post Book World Every page of On Photography raises important and exciting questions about its subject and raises them in the best way. -- The New York Times Book Review A book of great importance and originality . . . All future discussion or analysis of the role of photography in the affluent mass-media societies are now bound to begin with her book. --John Berger Not many photographs are worth a thousand of [Susan Sontag's] words. --Robert Hughes, Time After Sontag, photography must be written about not only as a force in the arts, but as one that is increasingly powerful in the nature and destiny of our global society. -- Newsweek On Photography is to my mind the most original and illuminating study of the subject. --Calvin Trillin, The New Yorker