The Works of Susan Sontag.

Born on Jan 16th 1933- Dec 28th 2004, Susan Sontag, an American Writter, Literary theorist, a feminist and a political activist, published books on her own essays expressing her views on photography.

Her first; "Against Interpretation and other essays" (1966) includes some of her most well known works including "On-style", "Notes on camp" and of course "Against Interpretation".
She argued that "in the new critical approach to aesthetics, the spiritual importance of art is being replaced by the emphasis on the intellect." and also that "Contemporary critics were all too often taking art's transcendental power for granted."
This book mainly featured on two things, Critism and Theory as to which she finally wrote, "Interpretation has become the intellects revenge upon art."

Her Second; "On Photography" (1977) was another collection of her more recent essays that has been published in the last 11 years. This book was used to express her views on the history and present-day role of photography in capitalist societies in the 1970's. In this book she was known to contrast some major works of the decade to the depression-era.
She argues, "perhaps, originally with regard to photography, the medium fostered an attitude of anti-intervention." Sontag says that "The individual who seeks to record cannot intervene, and that the person who intervenes cannot then faithfully record, for the two aims contradict each other."