Sontag's famous and now-standard collection of critical essays on photography. "On Photography 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 discussinos of the work of such important photographers such as Nadar, Muybridge, Stieglitz, Atget, Paul Strand, Edward Weston, August Sander, Walker Evans, Carter-Bresson, Robert Frank, Richard Avedon, and Diane Arbus." -- from interior flap.