On Photography
On Photography by Susan Sontag is a new edition published by Picador on April 15, 2025, featuring 224 pages in English. This work presents a critical exploration of photography, examining its complexities, politics, and implications. Sontag’s insightful analysis delves into how photography influences perception and reality, making it a significant text for those interested in the intersection of art and criticism.
Readers will find a collection of six essays that critique the multifaceted roles of imagery, including its capacity to seduce, advertise, and conceal. Sontag’s thought-provoking observations challenge conventional wisdom and invite reflection on the impact of visual culture. This edition of On Photography continues to resonate with contemporary discussions in arts and photography, making it a relevant resource for students, theorists, and anyone engaged in the study of visual media.
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Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism
A new edition of Susan Sontag’s groundbreaking critique of photography—its problems, politics, and possibilities.
“To photograph is to appropriate the thing photographed,” Sontag writes in the opening pages of On Photography, which went on to influence generations of theorists, film critics, and readers everywhere. Originally published in the 1970s, her groundbreaking collection remains uncannily prescient and profoundly precise.
With her singular searching eye, and her refusal to buckle under received wisdom, she presents a rousing critique of the functions of imagery—to seduce, to advertise, to evoke, to commemorate, to conspire, to conceal—across six essays. The result is a damning portrait of the ways we use imagery to manufacture reality and authority that feels as if it were written today.
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