https://publishinghouse.org/tags/criticism/ Recent content in criticism on Publishing House Hugo -- gohugo.io en-us Wed, 06 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://publishinghouse.org/what-susan-sontag-got-right-about-photography-and-what-she-missed/ Wed, 06 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://publishinghouse.org/what-susan-sontag-got-right-about-photography-and-what-she-missed/ On Photography was published in 1977 and has not been out of print since. That fact alone suggests Sontag was doing something more than journalism. She was building a framework, and frameworks built well outlast the specific occasions that prompted them. Fifty years on, the book reads as both essential and incomplete — which is a more interesting verdict than either pure endorsement or dismissal. What Sontag got right was the fundamental argument about photography’s relationship to reality.