О фотографии

Kollekt͡sii͡a ėsse Sʹi͡uzen Sontag "O fotografii" vpervye uvidela svet v vide serii ocherkov, opublikovannykh v New York Review of Books mezhdu 1973 i 1977 godami. V knige, sdelavsheĭ ee znamenitoĭ, Sontag prikhodit k vyvodu, chto shirokoe rasprostranenie fotografii privodit k ustanovlenii͡u mezhdu chelovekom i mirom otnosheniĭ "khronicheskogo vuaĭerizma", v rezulʹtate chego vse proiskhodi͡ashchee nachinaet raspolagatʹsi͡a na odnom urovne i priobretaet odinakovyĭ smysl. Glavnyĭ paradoks fotografii zakli͡uchaetsi͡a, soglasno Sontag, v tom, chto chelovek, kotoryĭ snimaet, ne mozhet vmeshatʹsi͡a v proiskhodi͡ashchee, i naoborot - esli on uchastvuet v sobytii, to okazyvaetsi͡a uzhe ne v sostoi͡anii zafiksirovatʹ ego v vide fotoizobrazhenii͡a. "Vse nachalosʹ s odnogo ėsse - o nekotorykh ėsteticheskikh i moralʹnykh problemakh, voznikai͡ushchikh v svi͡azi s vezdesushchnostʹi͡u fotograficheskikh izobrazheniĭ; no chem bolʹshe i͡a dumala o tom, chto takoe fotografii͡a, tem bolee slozhnymi i uvlekatelʹnymi predstavli͡alisʹ ėti problemy. Tak chto iz odnogo ėsse vytekalo drugoe, a potom (k moemu udivlenii͡u) eshche odno. Poluchilasʹ t͡sepochka stateĭ o znachenii i razvitii fotografii, kotorai͡a zavela meni͡a tak daleko, chto soobrazhenii͡a, ocherchennye v pervoĭ, prodolzhennye i zadokumentirovannye v posledui͡ushchikh, mozhno bylo summirovatʹ i rasshiritʹ bolee teoreticheskim obrazom - i na ėtom ostanovitʹsi͡a". Sʹi͡uzan Sontag "Ėta kniga bezuslovno budet stoi͡atʹ u istoka vsekh posledui͡ushchikh razmyshleniĭ o fotografii". The New York Times.

Susan Sontag's collection of essays “On Photography” was first published 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 concludes that the widespread use of photography leads to the establishment of a relationship of “chronic voyeurism” between a person and the world, 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, according to Sontag, is that the person who takes pictures he cannot interfere with what is happening, and vice versa – if he participates in the event, he is no longer able to capture it in the form of a photographic image. "It all started with one essay about some of the aesthetic and moral issues that arise from the ubiquity of photographic images; but the more I thought about what photography is, the more complex and fascinating these issues seemed. So one essay led to another, and then (to my surprise) another. It turned out to be a chain of articles about the meaning and development of photography, which took me so far that the considerations outlined in the first, continued and documented in subsequent ones, could be summarized and expanded in a more theoretical way – and stopped there." Susan Sontag “This book will certainly be at the origin of all subsequent reflections on photography.” The New York Times.