Sontag, Susan. On Photography by Susan Sontag.

Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1977. [The most widely read and controversial book of photographic criticism in the 1970s and one of the most quoted books on photography, this book "considers the relation of photography to art, to conscience, and to knowledge. These highly acclaimed essays, which originally appeared in somewhat different form in the New York Review of Books, contain illuminating discussions of the work of such important photographers as Nadar, Muybridge, Stieglitz, Atget, Paul Strand, Edward Weston, August Sander, Walker Evans, Cartier-Bresson, Robert Frank, Richard Avedon, and Diane Arbus." At the end of the book is a chapter with quotations by the names above plus an interesting assortment of others including Bruce Davidson, Louis-Jacques-Mandé Daguerre, Frederick Sommer, Dorothea Lange, Margaret Bourke-White, John Szarkowski, Helmut Gernsheim, Duane Michals, Agatha Christie, Moholy-Nagy, Garry Winogrand, George Tice, Minor White, Jerry Uelsmann, Julia Margaret Cameron, Elizabeth Barrett, Emmet Gowin, Lewis Hine, Nietzsche, Schopenhauer, Walter Benjamin, Clarence John Laughlin, and others.] Copies available:

• 1st printing, fine with price-clipped dust jacket that has a crease in inner front flap. 
• Book Club edition, dust jacket somewhat darkened on spine, otherwise fine.