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000292339 1001_ $$aSontag, Susan,$$d1933-2004.
000292339 24510 $$aRegarding the pain of others /$$cSusan Sontag.
000292339 250__ $$a1st Picador ed.
000292339 260__ $$aNew York :$$bPicador,$$c2004, c2003.
000292339 300__ $$a131 p. ;$$c22 cm.
000292339 520__ $$aWatching the evening news offers constant evidence of atrocity--a daily commonplace in our "society of spectacle." But are viewers inured--or incited--to violence by the daily depiction of cruelty and horror? Is the viewer's perception of reality eroded by the universal availability of imagery intended to shock? In this investigation of the role of imagery in our culture, Susan Sontag cuts through circular arguments about how pictures can inspire dissent or foster violence as she takes a fresh look at the representation of atrocity--from Goya's The Disasters of War to photographs of the American Civil War, lynchings of blacks in the South, and Dachau and Auschwitz to contemporary horrific images of Bosnia, Sierra Leone, Rwanda, and New York City on September 11, 2001. Sontag's new book, a startling reappraisal of the intersection of "information", "news," "art," and politics in the contemporary depiction of war and disaster, will forever alter our thinking about the uses and meanings of images in our world.
000292339 650_0 $$aWar and society.
000292339 650_0 $$aWar photography$$xSocial aspects.
000292339 650_0 $$aWar in art$$xSocial aspects.
000292339 650_0 $$aPhotojournalism$$xSocial aspects.
000292339 650_0 $$aAtrocities.
000292339 650_0 $$aViolence.
000292339 85200 $$bgen$$hHM554$$i.S65$$i2004
000292339 85642 $$3Publisher description$$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/description/hol031/2002192527.html
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