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Regarding the pain of others / Susan Sontag.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Picador modern classicsPublisher: New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2017Copyright date: ©2003Edition: First Picador modern classics editionDescription: 166 pages ; 15 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 1250160685
  • 9781250160683
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: No titleDDC classification:
  • 303.6 23
LOC classification:
  • HM554 .S65 2017
Summary: "One of the distinguishing features of modern life is that it supplies countless opportunities for regarding (at a distance, through the medium of photography) horrors taking place throughout the world. But are viewers inured—or incited—to violence by the depiction of cruelty? Is the viewer’s perception of reality eroded by the daily barrage of such images? What does it mean to care about the sufferings of others far away? First published more than twenty years after her now classic book On Photography, which changed how we understand the very condition of being modern, Regarding the Pain of Others challenges our thinking not only about the uses and means of images, but about how war itself is waged (and understood) in our time, the limits of sympathy, and the obligations of conscience"--Publisher's website.
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Originally published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux in 2003.

"One of the distinguishing features of modern life is that it supplies countless opportunities for regarding (at a distance, through the medium of photography) horrors taking place throughout the world. But are viewers inured—or incited—to violence by the depiction of cruelty? Is the viewer’s perception of reality eroded by the daily barrage of such images? What does it mean to care about the sufferings of others far away? First published more than twenty years after her now classic book On Photography, which changed how we understand the very condition of being modern, Regarding the Pain of Others challenges our thinking not only about the uses and means of images, but about how war itself is waged (and understood) in our time, the limits of sympathy, and the obligations of conscience"--Publisher's website.

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