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Regarding the Pain of Others is a 2003 book-length essay by Susan Sontag, which was nominated for the National Book Critics Circle Award. It was her last published book before her death in 2004. Sontag regarded the book as a sequel to her 1977 essay collection On Photography and reassessed some of the views she held in the latter.
Regarding The Pain Of Others not rely on information about who and when and where; the arbitrariness of the relentless slaughter is evidence enough. To those who are sure that right is on one side, oppression and injustice on the other, and that the fighting must go on, what matters is precisely who is killed and by whom.
7 janv. 2001 · A brilliant expansion and revision of On Photography, Regarding the Pain of Others argues for approaching images of suffering only as invitations to consider the origins and impact of social inequality.
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 ...
12 déc. 2011 · This is a digital version of the book by Susan Sontag, a cultural critic and essayist, about the representation and interpretation of violence and suffering in art and media. The book explores the ethical and political implications of war photography, atrocities, and violence in society.
1 oct. 2013 · Regarding the Pain of Others. Susan Sontag. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, Oct 1, 2013 - Social Science - 144 pages. A brilliant, clear-eyed consideration of the visual representation of violence in...
1 févr. 2004 · Sontag's prose masterfully dances around the question of how pictures of atrocities have been used historically and can be politically employed today, how viewers' ethical standpoint has changed over the years: sketching how the experience of 'regarding the pain of others' has evolved over the centuries until today.
