Have just finished reading "On Photography" by Susan Snotrag (sorry, Sontag). (Penguin Books ISBN 978-0-141-03578-9). I daresay she makes some very good points and observations, but why, oh why do these so called pundits have to dress it all up with Thesaurian acrobatics instead of plain English? Liz Wells and contributors in "Photography: A Critical Introduction" (Routledge Press ISBN 10: 0-415-30704- X) are another bunch. Most of what they want to put over could be stated on two sides of A4 with space left over. I suspect most photographers don't have an honours degree in English Language, and anyone starting out in the game could be seriously discouraged by these people.
Less books (unless they have pictures in), more photography!
Rant over.
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