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Author Sontag, Susan, 1933-2004

Title Regarding the pain of others / Susan Sontag
Edition 1st ed
Published New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2003

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Description 131 pages ; 22 cm
Summary Watching the evening news offers constant evidence of atrocity--a daily commonplace in our "society of spectacle." But are viewers inured--or incited--to violence by the daily depiction of cruelty and horror? Is the viewer's perception of reality eroded by the universal availability of imagery intended to shock? In this investigation of the role of imagery in our culture, Susan Sontag cuts through circular arguments about how pictures can inspire dissent or foster violence as she 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 Dachau and Auschwitz to contemporary horrific images of Bosnia, Sierra Leone, Rwanda, and New York City on September 11, 2001. Sontag's new book, a startling reappraisal of the intersection of "information", "news," "art," and politics in the contemporary depiction of war and disaster, will forever alter our thinking about the uses and meanings of images in our world
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 129-131)
SUBJECT Fremder Feind gnd
Subject War and society
War photography -- Social aspects
War in art -- Social aspects
Photojournalism -- Social aspects
Atrocities
Violence
Photography
Journalism
Social psychology
War photography -- Psychological aspects
War photography -- History
War in mass media -- Social aspects
War in mass media -- Psychological aspects
Warfare
Violence
Photography
Journalism
Psychology, Social
violence.
journalism.
social psychology.
Atrocities.
Violence.
War and society.
Gewalt
Kultur
Fotografie
Bildpublizistik
Oorlog.
Oorlogsfotografie.
Fotojournalistiek.
Sociale aspecten.
Filosofische aspecten.
War and society.
War photography -- Social aspects.
War in art -- Social aspects.
Photojournalism -- Social aspects.
Violence.
Guerre -- Société.
Atrocités.
Photographie de guerre -- Aspect social.
Guerre -- Aspect social.
Guerre -- Dans l'art.
Photographie de presse.
Krieg.
LC no. 2002192527
ISBN 0374248583
9780374248581
9780312422196
0312422199