О фотографии

The Susan Sontag collection of essays On Photography first saw the light of day as a series of essays published in the New York Review of Books between 1973 and 1977. In the book that made her famous, Sontag comes to the conclusion that the widespread use of photography leads to the establishment of a relationship between man and the world of "chronic voyeurism", as a result of which everything that happens begins to be located on the same level and acquires the same meaning. The main paradox of photography is, according to Sontag, that the person who shoots cannot intervene in what is happening, and, conversely, if he participates in the event, then he is no longer able to fix it in the form of a photographic image.