Notes After Reading Susan Sontag's On Photography is one of those books that becomes increasingly irritating the more you agree with it. Published in 1977, it examines photography as something far more influential than an artistic medium or a method of documentation. For Sontag, photography shapes how we understand the world, how we remember it, and, perhaps most importantly, how we consume it. Reading it almost fifty years later is an odd experience. Much of what she writes