About photography

The collection of the Essay Susan Sontag "On the photo" for the first time saw the light in the form of a series of essays published in the New York Review of Books between 1973 and 1977. In the book that made it famous, Sontag concludes that the widespread spread of the photograph leads to the establishment between the person and the world of relations of "chronic voyeurism", as a result of which everything that happens begins to be at the same level and acquires the same meaning. The main paradox of the photograph is, according to Sontag, that a person who takes off cannot intervene in what is happening, and, conversely, if he is involved in the event, it is no longer able to fix it in the form of a photo recovery.
7th edition