Regarding the Pain of Others

Susan Sontag

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Regarding the Pain of Others

by Susan Sontag

Published

Sep 29, 2003

Publisher

Proa

Pages

160

ISBN-13

9788484376446

ISBN-10

8484376443

Description

Twenty-five years after her classic On Photography, Susan Sontag returns to the subject of visual representations of war and violence in our culture today. How does the spectacle of the sufferings of others (via television or newsprint) affect us? Are viewers inured--or incited--to violence by the depiction of cruelty? In Regarding the Pain of Others, Susan Sontag takes a fresh look at the representation of atrocity--from Goya's The Disasters of War to photographs of the American Civil War, lynchings of blacks in the South, and the Nazi death camps, to contemporary horrific images of Bosnia, Sierra Leone, Rwanda, Israel and Palestine, and New York City on September 11, 2001. In Regarding the Pain of Others Susan Sontag once again changes the way we think about the uses and meanings of images in our world, and offers an important reflection about how war itself is waged (and understood) in our time.

Subjects

Social aspects of War in artPhotojournalismSocial aspectsHumanistic ethicsViolenceWar photographyWar in artSocial aspects of War photographyWar and societySocial aspects of PhotojournalismAtrocitiesNew York Times reviewedSOCIAL SCIENCEMedia StudiesWarPhotographyJournalismSocial PsychologyMass media and warWar in mass media
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Who is the author of Regarding the Pain of Others?

Regarding the Pain of Others was written by Susan Sontag.

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