Regarding the Pain of Others (Magill’s Literary Annual 2004)
At a glance:
- Author: Susan Sontag
- First Published: 2003
- Type of Work: Essays
- Time of Work: The nineteenth and twentieth centuries
- Setting: Europe, Africa, Asia, North America, and South America
- Principal Characters: Virginia Woolf, Francisco de Goya, Robert Capa, Matthew Brady, William Wordsworth
- Genres: Nonfiction, Essays
- Subjects: Suffering, United States or Americans, Twentieth century, Nineteenth century, Victims, Violence, Pain, War, Photography or photographers, Military life or service, Spanish Civil War, Spain or Spanish people, Pacifism, Photojournalism or photojournalists
- Locales: Africa, Europe, Asia, South America, North America
In On Photography (1977), Susan Sontag presented what is arguably the most important discussion of the meaning of photography in the English language. Her work has been cited—attacked and acclaimed—ever since it began appearing as a series of essays in The New York Review of Books in the early 1970’s. In scattered essays and introductions to the work of others, she has extended her arguments about photography, but in Regarding the Pain of Others she has provided not only a major restatement of views but also a challenge to some of her earlier opinions....
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