On Photography

[美] 苏珊·桑塔格

出版社

Penguin Classics

出版时间

2008-01-01

ISBN

9780141035789

评分

★★★★★

书籍介绍

How do we see the world around us? "The Penguin on Design" series includes the works of creative thinkers whose writings on art, design and the media have changed our vision forever. Susan Sontag's groundbreaking critique of photography asks forceful questions about the moral and aesthetic issues surrounding this art form. Photographs are everywhere. They have the power to shock, idealize or seduce, they create a sense of nostalgia and act as a memorial, and they can be used as evidence against us or to identify us. In six incisive essays, Sontag examines the ways in which we use these omnipresent images to manufacture a sense of reality and authority in our lives.

How do we see the world around us? The Penguin on Design series includes the works of creative thinkers whose writings on art, design and the media have changed our vision forever.

Susan Sontag’s groundbreaking critique of photography asks forceful questions about the moral and aesthetic issues surrounding this art form. Photographs are everywhere. They have the power to shock,...

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用户评论

To photograph people is to violate them, by seeing them as they never see themselves, by having knowledge of them that they can never have; it turns people into objects that can be symbolically possessed. Just as a camera is a sublimation of the gun, to photograph someone is a subliminal murder - a soft murder, appropriate to a sad, frightened time

摄影不只是作品，摄影是一整套事件，里面有权力的运作，有视角的选择，有对新事物的疯狂也有对旧日幻影的迷恋。也正因为摄影是现实中的事件，摄影作品也才能成为现实中的超现实。桑塔格的洞察力和感受力太过强大

桑塔格在对比“工业社会”与“非工业社会”的时候，不免有些东方主义吧。同样的简化也存在于她对中国的讨论中。很明显，她是通过一种既定的过滤系统来看非西方世界的。很好奇这本1977年出版的书于海德格尔1977年发表的World Picture的文章之间的关系。个人认为本书中的观点不是很新。基本没有离开巴赞1960年那篇the ontology of photographic image的影子。萨义德的东方主义1978年出版，时间差是桑塔格唯一的脱罪证明。

Photography is the opposite of understanding, which starts from not accepting the world as it looks.

9 - Need a revisit

很聪明，无论是观点还是文风。特别是现在用手机就能拍照的时代，每个人都在建自己的艺术画廊，桑塔格的观点还是很有启发性。印象深的观点是：摄影是谋杀的升华；照片不促成理解，因为没有时间上的纵深；“摄影是艺术，因为它能撒谎”；摄影是否是艺术是无用之争，它只是媒介；“to experience a thing as beautiful means to experience it necessarily wrongly. — Nietzsche”。

从工业化革命，社会变革引出了照片/摄影的目的和使用场景，延伸到人类观察环境的角度，还深入讨论了摄影伦理道德层面，挺值得看的。

“To photograph is to appropriate the thing photographed. It means putting oneself into a certain relation to the world that feels like knowledge—- and therefore, like power”

“For boredom is just the reverse side of a situation, both depend on being outside rather than inside a situation, and one leads to the other.”