Blog all dog-eared pages: Regarding The Pain Of Others, Susan Sontag

Posted on Blog all dog-eared pages: Regarding The Pain Of Others, Susan Sontag: Regarding the Pain of Others is a long-form essay by Susan Sontag, examining the representation of suffering (and notably warfare) through the display of photographs. Published in 2003, in many ways, it is a follow up to some of the ideas examined in her earlier On Photography. On Photography is one of my favourite books on the subject; it made a deep impact at university, and I’ve been meaning to reread it for a while. Regarding the Pain of Others is interesting if only because (as later illu (source)

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