Regarding The Pain Of Others

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 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

Author: Susan Sontag

Publisher: Picador

Released Date: 2003

ISBN: 9780312422196