‘The most original and important work yet written on the subject…All future discussion on the role of photography in the affluent mass-media societies is bound to refer to Susan Sontag’s On Photography as a key work’

John Berger, New Society

《论摄影》不仅是一本论述摄影的经典著作，而且是一本论述广泛意义上的现代文化的经典著作。

桑塔格深入地探讨摄影的本质，包括摄影是不是艺术，摄影与绘画的互相影响，摄影与真实世界的关系，摄影的捕食性和侵略性。摄影表面上是反映现实，但实际上摄影影像自成一个世界，一个影像世界，企图取代真实世界。由此，谈论摄影亦成为讨论世界的一种方式。

《论摄影》出版于一九七七年，轰动一时，引起广泛的讨论，并荣获当年的全国图书批评界奖, 至今仍被誉为“摄影界的《圣经》”。

苏珊•桑塔格

1933年生于美国纽约，毕业于芝加哥大学。1993年当选为美国文学艺术学院院士。她是美国声名卓著的“新知识分子”，与西蒙娜•波伏瓦、汉娜•阿伦特并称为西方当代最重要的女知识分子，被誉为“美国公众的良心”。2000年获美国国家图书奖，2001年获耶路撒冷国际文学奖，2003年获西班牙阿斯图里亚斯王子文学奖及德国图书大奖——德国书业和平奖。2004年12月28日病逝于纽约。

Susan Sontag

Has written four novels, The Benefactor, Death Kit, The Volcano Lover and In America, which won the 2000 National Book Award for fiction; a collection of stories, I, etcetera; Several plays, including Alice in Bed; and eight books of essays, Against Interpretation, Styles of Radical Will, On Photography, Illness as Metaphor & AIDS and Its Metaphors, Under the Sign of Saturn, Where the Stress Falls, Regarding the Pain of Others and At the Same Time. Her books are translated into thirty-two languages. In 2001 she was awarded the Jerusalem Prize for her body of work, and in 2003 she received the Prince of Asturias Prize for Literature and the Peace Prize of the German Book Trade. She died in December 2004.