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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 www.doorway.ru by: Regarding the Pain of Others - Kindle edition by Sontag, Susan. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading Regarding the Pain of Others/5().  · 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. Drawing attention to how photography is always both art and testimony, Sontag convincingly deconstructs the idea that a photo of pain by itself can reveal anything universal or self evident about 4/5(K).

Regarding the Pain of Others. Picador Modern Classics. Author: Susan Sontag. Regarding the Pain of Others. $ Hardcover e-Book Trade Paperback Format. Buy Now. Regarding the Pain of Others. Author: Susan Sontag. 3 Susan Sontag staged Beckett's Waiting for Godot in the summer of in besieged Sarajevo. She spent in Sarajevo much of the time between early 19and was made an honorary citizen of the city. 4 Susan Sontag, Regarding the Pain of Others (New York: Picador/Farrar, Straus and Giroux, ), p. Regarding the Pain of Others By SUSAN SONTAG. TIMES NEWS TRACKER: Track news that interests you. hapter 1. In June Virginia Woolf published Three Guineas, her brave, unwelcomed reflections on the roots of war. Written during the preceding two years, while she and most of her intimates and fellow writers were rapt by the advancing fascist.

Regarding the Pain of Others by Susan Sontag Hamish Hamilton £, pp This is Susan Sontag's second book on photography and, like the first, published in , it contains no photographs. Regarding the Pain of Others is a book-length essay by Susan Sontag published in Sontag initially addresses a question posed to writer and anti-war activist Virginia Woolf: “How in your opinion are we to prevent war?” but then, deducing that war is perennial, Sontag uses the remainder of her book to examine the relation between photography and feelings and ideas about war. Sontag, Susan, Regarding the pain of others / Susan Sontag. p. cm. ISBN 1. War and society. 2. War photography-Social aspects. 3. War in art—Social aspects. 4. Photojournalism—Social aspects. 5. Atrocities. 6. Violence. I. Tide. HMS65 dc21 First published in the United States by Farrar, Straus and Giroux.