Re: [Leica] Re: Sontag et al

[Bill Satterfield <cwsat@cyberhighway.net>]

Where can you get a copy?

Dave Fisher wrote:

> > From: ARTHURWG@aol.com
> > Subject: Re: [Leica] Sontag et al
> > Message-ID: <11.8f6a453.26ed814d@aol.com>
> > References:
> >
> > I re-read "On Photography" last year, for the first time since it was
> written
> > in the 1970's. At that time I thought it was very interesting and smart.
> This
> > time I was stunned! This has got to be one of the best investigations of
> > photography ever!  I don't see it as directly related to my own pictures,
> > exactly. But I think she was right about so many things, made me consider
> and
> > reconsider so many things, that it has  to some degree  changed my
> > picture-taking. Arthur
>
> Took a photography course as part of environmental studies/architecture at
> university and the course curriculum had two required readings -- one was an
> introductory technical book, the other was Sontag's "On Photography." I'd
> been taking photos for a number of years and thought I knew it all. The text
> book I didn't really need, since I already had many. And Sontag's book I
> dismissed early as pedantic bunkum. Went back to it years later, and I am
> not ashamed to admit that I was ignorant. I don't agree with everything she
> asserts, but I admire her guts for saying it, and yes, there's lots of
> provocative thinking going on there. A smart instructor for making it
> required reading, I've always thought.