A sweeping anthropological investigation into the manner by which Photography has immutably altered our perception of the world around us. Sontag's essays range from explorations of the evolution of the American photographic tradition, examining the manner by which culture/politics shape our understanding of the purpose of photography itself, to mapping how Photography, the 'realistic' medium, which supposedly liberated painting to pursue abstractionism, ironically followed this very same trajectory. An interesting read, yet certainly am left with the feeling that quite a lot of it may have passed over my head.