On Susan Sontag: photography as engaged thinking

Abstract

On Photography was written at the end of the 1970s and became a classic text in the field. Susan Sontag would return to photography throughout her intellectual life in other texts. She adopted then a perspective that at the same time was true to her original concerns and deepened aspects found in other authors and themes to whom she also dedicated her writings, This article investigates, thus, how Sontag used photography as one front for her engagement to develop conscience.