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Product Identifiers

PublisherPicador

ISBN-100312422199

ISBN-139780312422196

eBay Product ID (ePID)30267987

Product Key Features

Book TitleRegarding the Pain of Others

Number of Pages144 Pages

LanguageEnglish

TopicMedia Studies, Sociology / General, Photojournalism, General, Criticism, Violence in Society, Photoessays & Documentaries, Subjects & Themes / General

Publication Year2004

FeaturesRevised

GenreArt, Social Science, Photography, History

AuthorSusan Sontag

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height0.4 in

Item Weight4.6 Oz

Item Length8.2 in

Item Width5.8 in

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Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN2002-192527

Dewey Edition21

ReviewsWise and somber. . .Sontag's closing words acknowledge that there are realities which no picture can convey., Regarding the Pain of Others bristles with a sense of commitment--to seeing the world as it is, to worrying about the ways it is represented, even to making some gesture in the direction of changing it. . .the performance is thrilling to witness., "Wise and somber. . .Sontag's closing words acknowledge that there are realities which no picture can convey." --Los Angeles Times Book Review "The history of sensibility in a culture shaped by the mechanical reproduction of imagery....has always been one of the guiding preoccupations of her best work, from Against Interpretation to The Volcano Lover....Regarding the Pain of Others invites, and rewards, more than one reading." --Newsday "For 30 years, Susan Sontag has been challenging an entire generation to think about the things that frighten us most: war, disease, death. Her books illuminate without simplifying, complicate without obfuscating, and insist above all that to ignore what threatens us is both irresponsible and dangerous." --O, The Oprah Magazine "A timely meditation on politics and ethics. . .extraordinary . . .Sontag's insight and erudition are profound." --The Atlanta Journal-Constitution "Regarding the Pain of Others bristles with a sense of commitment--to seeing the world as it is, to worrying about the ways it is represented, even to making some gesture in the direction of changing it. . .the performance is thrilling to witness." --The New York Times Magazine "A fiercely challenging book. . .immensely thought-provoking." --The Christian Science Monitor, The history of sensibility in a culture shaped by the mechanical reproduction of imagery....has always been one of the guiding preoccupations of her best work, from Against Interpretation to The Volcano Lover ....Regarding the Pain of Others invites, and rewards, more than one reading., For 30 years, Susan Sontag has been challenging an entire generation to think about the things that frighten us most: war, disease, death. Her books illuminate without simplifying, complicate without obfuscating, and insist above all that to ignore what threatens us is both irresponsible and dangerous., "Wise and somber. . .Sontag's closing words acknowledge that there are realities which no picture can convey." -- Los Angeles Times Book Review "The history of sensibility in a culture shaped by the mechanical reproduction of imagery....has always been one of the guiding preoccupations of her best work, from Against Interpretation to The Volcano Lover ....Regarding the Pain of Others invites, and rewards, more than one reading." -- Newsday "For 30 years, Susan Sontag has been challenging an entire generation to think about the things that frighten us most: war, disease, death. Her books illuminate without simplifying, complicate without obfuscating, and insist above all that to ignore what threatens us is both irresponsible and dangerous." -- O, The Oprah Magazine "A timely meditation on politics and ethics. . .extraordinary . . .Sontag's insight and erudition are profound." -- The Atlanta Journal-Constitution " Regarding the Pain of Others bristles with a sense of commitment--to seeing the world as it is, to worrying about the ways it is represented, even to making some gesture in the direction of changing it. . .the performance is thrilling to witness." -- The New York Times Magazine "A fiercely challenging book. . .immensely thought-provoking." -- The Christian Science Monitor, A timely meditation on politics and ethics. . .extraordinary . . .Sontag's insight and erudition are profound.

Dewey Decimal303.6

Edition DescriptionRevised edition

SynopsisTwenty-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., A brilliant, clear-eyed consideration of the visual representation of violence in our culture--its ubiquity, meanings, and effects. Considered one of the greatest critics of her generation, Susan Sontag followed up her monumental On Photography with an extended study of human violence, reflecting on a question first posed by Virginia Woolf in Three Guineas : How in your opinion are we to prevent war? "For a long time some people believed that if the horror could be made vivid enough, most people would finally take in the outrageousness, the insanity of war." 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 suffering 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.

LC Classification NumberHM554.S65 2003