Su-tae Son Taek is the author of six essays published in the New York Times Book Review for about four years. The book was published in 1977 and received praise from various circles. He received a huge success of selling 64,000 copies in three months. In 1978, he was awarded the "National Book Critics Association Award" criticism category.

This book raises a sharp question about the nature of photography, the main recording medium of the 20th century. It is also considered one of the best works of Son Taek, because the fight against the 'false image' developed by Son Taek during his lifetime began with the publication of this book in earnest.

In today's world where images are consumed at an unprecedented rate and photos are a kind of medicine and illness, and are in danger of becoming a means of making the reality proper and obsolete, and the image world created by photography does not understand the real world Today, are the questions that this book brings to us still valid?

How do we see the world around us? The Penguin on Design series includes the works of creative thinkers whose writings on art, design and the media have changed our vision forever.

Susan Sontag's groundbreaking critique of photography asks about the moral and aesthetic issues surrounding this art form. Photographs are everywhere. They have the power to shock, idealize or seduce, they create a sense of nostalgia and act as a memorial, and they can be used as evidence against us. In six incisive essays, Sontag examines the ways in which we use these omnipresent images to manufacture a sense of reality and authority in our lives.

Susan Sontag Susan SontagBorn in New York in January 1933, Susan Sontag is the best essayist, novelist and art critic in the United States. She enrolled at Berkeley University at the age of 15, moved to Chicago and began her college life, and married at the age of 17. At the age of 25, he received his Ph.D. in Harvard Philosophy and received philanthropic lectures at universities. Particularly because of her two articles, "I oppose the interpretation" and "the prize for the camp", which she published at the age of 31 in 1964, At the time, critic Leslie Fiddler declared "the death of the novel" and caused a ripple in the paragraph. Her essays, which challenged the customs and traditions of the past, include Friedler's declaration of the end of modernism, It was a monumental declaration that opened the chapel of.

Sueon Son Taek speaks about "New Sensibility", which means "I must experience art as art itself" rather than trying to find fixed meanings in art in "oppose interpretation" and feel art. In addition, <The Prize for Camp> criticizes the traditional idea of distinguishing content and form, and presents an aesthetic experience more important than criticism.

In addition to his novels such as "Volcano Lovers" and "In America," he has written several articles, such as "On Photography," interpreted from the standpoint of social science history. , The criticism category of the American Book Critics Association, and the American Book Award for "In America". She is also known as a practicing intellectual, In 1988, when he was president of the American Penguin, he visited Seoul and urged the liberation of the literati bound to the Korean government, exposing the reality of the American dream. In 1993, she performed "Waiting for Heights" in war Sarajevo. In September 2002, the first anniversary of the September 11 terrorist attacks in the United States, she wrote "The True Battles and the Empty Metaphor" in the New York Times. "It is only a metaphorical war in which the end is invisible like cancer, poverty and drug war," he said. "Nevertheless, it is the intention of the US administration to declare war to use the power of the United States indefinitely." In 2003, he was awarded the "German Publishing Association Peace Prize" at the Frankfurt International Book Fair for his praise of "I have firmly defended the freedom of thought in a world surrounded by false images and distorted truth."

She was transformed into a playwright, a film director, a theater director, a cultural critic, a social activist, and earned a lot of nicknames and fame as "First Lady of Popular Culture", "Priest of New Sensibility" On May 28, he died of myelogenous leukemia, and later he published a book on literary criticism, "Literature is Free," in honor of him.