Photographic Art in the 1970s

“Photography is not, to begin with, an art form at all”

So wrote Susan Sontag in On Photography, a celebrated collection of critical essays published in the New York Review of Books between 1973 and 1977. She continued, “Photography is not an art like, say, painting and poetry.” Eventually, she would publish a partial refutation of these opinions in her 1993 book Regarding the Pain of Others.