<![CDATA[Regarding the Pain of Others]]>

false <![CDATA[Regarding the Pain of Others]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170387540m/52373.jpg 52373 9 <div>A brilliant, clear-eyed new consideration of the visual representation of violence in our culture--its ubiquity, meanings, and effects 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 her first full-scale investigation of the role of imagery in our culture since her now-classic book On Photography defined the terms of the debate twenty-five years ago, 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. As John Berger wrote when On Photography was first published, "All future discussions or analysis of the role of photography in the affluent mass-media societies is now bound to begin with her book." 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 be equally essential. It will forever alter our thinking about the uses and meanings of images in our world. </div> 430074 2003 Regarding the Pain of Others total:751|5:217|4:338|3:155|2:34|1:7| 751 2977 1202 72 4 2 false false Thu Feb 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Tue Jul 03 11:46:47 -0700 2007 Tue Jul 03 11:47:06 -0700 2007 more...]]> 3 1 false false Wed Feb 11 20:17:41 -0800 2009 Wed Feb 11 20:56:16 -0800 2009 more...]]> 3 1 false false Wed Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Tue Jul 24 09:10:51 -0700 2007 Mon Aug 06 17:08:27 -0700 2007
I don't want to say she's the queen of longwinded essays, because I know some people love her work, but I got bored of this one a little over half way through and skimmed the rest.

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"So far as we feel sympathy,we feel we are not accomplices to what caused the suffering. Our sympathy proclaims our innocence as well as our impotence. To that extent, it can be (for all our g...more...]]> 4 0 false false Mon Jan 19 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Fri Jan 16 09:07:20 -0800 2009 Tue Jan 20 07:05:17 -0800 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Tue Nov 18 12:00:05 -0800 2008 Mon Jan 12 18:48:57 -0800 2009
"To the militant, identity is everything."

"...all photographs want to be explained or falsified by their captions."

"To reconcile it is necessary that memory be faulty and limited. "
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Some quotables:

"So far as we feel sympathy, we feel we are not accomplices to what caused the suffering. Our sympathy proclaims ou...more...]]> 4 0 false false Sun Jan 27 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Thu Jan 17 11:58:22 -0800 2008 Mon Feb 04 17:13:00 -0800 2008 more...]]> 3 0 false false Sun Feb 18 03:44:25 -0800 2007 Sun Feb 18 03:44:25 -0800 2007 more...]]> 4 0 true false Sat Nov 22 11:38:05 -0800 2008 Tue Nov 18 06:42:44 -0800 2008 Sat Nov 22 11:38:05 -0800 2008 more...]]> 4 1 false false Tue Apr 14 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Jan 15 12:17:43 -0800 2009 Tue Apr 14 09:59:53 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Fri Oct 23 08:00:21 -0700 2009 Fri Oct 23 08:02:49 -0700 2009 "For those who live neither with religious consolations about death nor with a sense of death (or of anything else) as natural, death is the obscene mystery, the ul...more...]]> 5 0 false false Sat Sep 26 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Sep 26 21:46:40 -0700 2009 Sat Sep 26 21:48:35 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Sun Nov 15 09:16:00 -0800 2009 Sun Nov 15 09:16:56 -0800 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Sat Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2005 Sun Jan 11 12:48:14 -0800 2009 Sun Jan 11 12:50:54 -0800 2009 2 0 false false Sun Oct 04 17:11:22 -0700 2009 Mon Oct 12 09:44:24 -0700 2009 more...]]> http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=52373