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Regarding The Pain Of Others
Susan Sontag
Picador
February 2004
On Sale: February 1, 2004
144 pages ISBN: 0312422199 EAN: 9780312422196 Paperback
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Non-Fiction
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.
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