The other eye of the beholder.(Book Review)
American Prospect, The, September, 2003 by Nehamas, Alexander
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REGARDING THE PAIN OF OTHERS BY SUSAN SONTAG * FARRAR, STRAUS AND GIROUX * 139 PAGES * $20.00
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"EVER SINCE CAMERAS WERE INVENTED in 1839, photography has kept company with death": Thirty years after the fir of the essays eventually collected in C Photography, which was published 1977, Susan Sontag is still troubled t the aesthetic, moral and political ambiguities of the medium. Regarding the Pain of Others is her erudite, subtle and provocative--though also tentative and sometimes inconclusive--meditation on the tensions inherent in photographs of war, death and ...
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