On Photography (edit title)

Shelfari edited the description of On Photography Saturday, August 1 2009.

• Winner of the National Book Critics' Circle Award for Criticis m. One of the most highly regarded books of its kind, On Photography first appeared in 1977 and is described by its author as “a progress of essays about the meaning and career of photographs.” It begins with the famous “In Plato’s Cave”essay, then offers five other prose meditations on this topic, and concludes with a fascinating and far-reaching “Brief Anthology of Quotations.”

Shelfari edited the contributors of On Photography Wednesday, July 22 2009.

• Added a contributor: Susan Sontag: (Primary Author)

Shelfari edited the first sentence of On Photography Thursday, July 16 2009.

• Humankind lingers unregenerately in Plato's cave, still reveling, its age-old habit, in mere images of the truth.