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4.08 AVERAGE
4.08 AVERAGE
challenging
emotional
hopeful
informative
reflective
medium-paced
challenging
dark
informative
slow-paced
This wasn't what I expected it to be. I didn't know it was all about war, and I expected for discussions about other shock images. I did like some of the discussions made, but it was also very repetitive. I don't rate nonfiction unless I really loved them, and I didn't love this or get much from it.
Also, this book came out like twenty years ago, and I honestly don't think it aged very well, especially with the political climate nowadays.
Also, this book came out like twenty years ago, and I honestly don't think it aged very well, especially with the political climate nowadays.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Death, Violence, War
Moderate: Body horror, Genocide, Gore
Minor: Slavery, Colonisation
challenging
informative
reflective
sad
medium-paced
Not in the mood for essays. I'll try again some other time
Got this recommended by my dad after we’d been to see an exhibition of Goya’s «The Disasters of War» a couple of months ago. Sharply presented analysis, thought-provoking and confronting claims, and interestingly a topic which has only escalated in relevance since the release of this essay 20 years ago.
challenging
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reflective
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Expanding on and engaging with the subject matter of her 1977 classic On Photography Sontag explores what meaning there is to be found in photos of war and atrocities. With characteristically incisive questions and insightful arguments she prompts us to challenge our own assumptions that these photos represent objective truths, and to critically assess how these images affect us. Published in 2003, Sontag brings in newer examples from the war in the former Yugoslavia to the 9/11 attacks. Although still photography is her primary subject, she does discuss TV and many of the questions she raises are still relevant in our current social media context. Sontag's work is always mind-expanding but I wished this work was longer and that she had gone deeper on audience impacts.
a lot of the argument felt very familiar, but maybe that’s because sonntag shaped the conversation around photography and violence and memory over the past couple decades
a lot of really, really thought-provoking and novel points
interesting to connect ideas about history & memory to art and photography
a lot of really, really thought-provoking and novel points
interesting to connect ideas about history & memory to art and photography
This is just to say, whoever priced this at Macmillan, you're out of your mind. I don't think anyone will pay $22.99 CAD for this book that is scarcely larger than an iPhone 8, even if the book looks beautiful as hell.