01854nam a2200253Ia 4500 322729 20180319094434.0 130816s2003 nyu 000 0 eng c 2002192527 0374248583 (alk. paper) HM554 .S65 2003 303.6 S6998r 21 Sontag, Susan, 43201 LEMB Regarding the pain of others Susan Sontag. New York Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2003. 131 p. 22 cm. 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. War and society 187132 Local 185963 Violence Local Atrocities 55814 Local Photojournalism Social aspects. 150766 Local War in art Social aspects. 187143 Local War photography Social aspects. 289398 Local 240362 240362 0 0 ddc 0 303_600000000000000_S6998R 0 evl 147728 10 10 1 2016-05-27 Amazon 10.29 515045 0 303.6 S6998r 80000002499666 2016-05-27 00:00:00 r:322729 z:Presup. 2012-13 6