Susan Sontag was an American novelist, essayist, political activist, and feminist. She wrote two novels: On Photography and Against Interpretation.
In the book, Sontag expresses her views on the history and present-day role of photography incapitalist societies as of the 1970s. Sontag discusses many examples of modern photography. Among these, she contrasts Diane Arbus's work with that of Depression-era documentary photography commissioned by the Farm Security Administration.
She also explores the history of American photography in relation to the idealistic notions of America put forth by Walt Whitman and traces these ideas through to the increasingly cynical aesthetic notions of the 1970s, particularly in relation to Arbus and Andy Warhol.
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