The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York) Nadar with his Wife, Ernestine, in a Balloon. Mia Fineman, curator of photography at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, who wrote the preface to Susan Sontag’s On Photography, talks to us about the publication.
While these photographs don’t affect the book’s well-crafted prose, their presence is an aid to the imagination, and helps to put a finger on the ever-growing visibility of the medium. “It’s a simple, quiet image, and the human figure always draws in the viewer,” notes Mandy Kirkby, the publisher of this engaging book. Susan Sontag’s intriguing essays, first published by The New York Review of Books between 19, are rendered more accessible in this beautifully bound volume.įor the first time, On Photography is accompanied by twenty-two images-in addition to the one on the cover, featuring a dreamy woman dressed in fur photographed by Walker Evans, one of the icons of twentieth-century America. The London-based Folio Society releases a new illustrated collector’s edition of Susan Sontag’s (1933–2004) On Photography, the survival manual of a generation in love with film photography, right next to the three other revered authors: Roland Barthes, Walter Benjamin, and Gisèle Freund.
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