Regarding the Pain of Others by Susan Sontag

4.08 AVERAGE

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larafrances's review against another edition

4.5
informative reflective medium-paced
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lotti3's review against another edition

5.0
challenging informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

abbyinwonderland222's review against another edition

5.0
thank u for carrying my ethics of documentary class susan sontag

britreadsbooks's review against another edition

5.0
challenging dark emotional informative reflective slow-paced

leifalreadyexists's review against another edition

5.0
Sontag is a writer of the first order: provocative, thoughtful, and graceful. Regarding the Pain of Others is her mature work, and should not be quickly passed over.
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beargardeners's review against another edition

3.5
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Susan Sontag never misses, but I do feel rather inept reading this book— she has great concepts that I wish I had the brain capacity to delve deeper into. Photography as inherently contradictory (subjective and objective all at the same time), as evocative but yet also numbing, the transfiguration of photography… 

An essay to reread over the years, especially as we live through some modern wars right now.

teamstresse's review against another edition

5.0
Sontag picks up her inquiry into photography in 2003 Post 9/11, post 24/7 news. She looks specifically at images of war and revisits her arguments from On Photography. Again, this mind. It's great to engage these arguments and think of them in the context today of Twitter and Black Lives Matter. I'm inspired.

feiglech's review against another edition

3.25
challenging informative slow-paced

billy_p's review against another edition

3.0
Pompous but some good insights, and mercifully brief.

ainsley9's review against another edition

4.0
dark informative reflective fast-paced