Tag: Photography
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Course Notes – Susan Sontag, “In Plato’s Cave,” from On Photography (1977)
by Daniel A. Kaufman http://classes.dma.ucla.edu/Winter17/173/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/document-2.pdf Half of my upper-division course in Aesthetics is devoted to criticism, but given the impossibility of doing any justice to the history of the subject in such a short time, I focus on two major critics from the last century: Clement Greenberg and Susan Sontag. In the case of Greenberg,…