susan sontag on photography

Most editions shown are paperback and are available in English and Spanish.

Page counts for the editions listed typically range from about 208 to 224 pages.

The book is described as a winner of the National Book Critics' Circle Award for Criticism and is praised as a highly original and illuminating study.

On Photography is presented as a group of six essays, beginning with "In Plato's Cave," followed by five other meditative essays, plus a brief anthology of quotations.

Sontag critiques how photographic images seduce, advertise, evoke, commemorate, persuade, deceive, and help shape notions of reality and authority.

The collected edition is described as a two-volume set with a combined page count of 1,740 pages.

Descriptions mention a brief anthology of quotations and, for the collected edition, annotation, textual essays, and a chronology.