"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...

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1. Verfasser:	Sontag, Susan 1933-2004 (VerfasserIn)
Format:	Buch
Sprache:	English
Veröffentlicht:	New York Farrar, Straus and Giroux November 2017
Ausgabe:	First Picador modern classics edition
Schriftenreihe:	Sociology
Schlagworte:	War and society War photography / Social aspects War in art / Social aspects Photojournalism / Social aspects Atrocities Violence Guerre et société Photographie de guerre / Aspect social Guerre dans l'art / Aspect social Photographie de presse / Aspect social Atrocités violence Poetry poetry Poésie
Zusammenfassung:	"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."--Amazon
Beschreibung:	Reissue. Originally published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux in 2003. - First Picador Edition February 2004
Beschreibung:	166 Seiten 15 cm
ISBN:	9781250160683 1250160685