About photography

"On Photography" is a collection of essays by the American writer and critic Susan Sontag. First published in 1977, this work has gained phenomenal weight in shaping theoretical ideas around photography. In six essays, Sontag reflects on how the ubiquity of photography, which has become a social ritual, has radically transformed our relationship with the world around us. By creating the illusion of obtaining through the camera power over reality, photography, on the contrary, distances us from it, constructing and manipulating our perception of reality.