sreya_96 's review for:

Regarding the Pain of Others by Susan Sontag

4.0

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This book by Susan Sontag focuses on the representation of pain through various visual mediums. It records the differences in the conceptualisation and representation of pain (of others) that came into being with the emergence of photography. This book also explores the different developmental stages of war photography. The philosophy expounded by Sontag on photography and pain in this book is subtle yet profound. It helps the reader to formulate a new and critical perspective on the representation of pain (of others) in photographs, which becomes particularly relevant in the digital of twenty-first century in which there is media saturation as we are constantly bombarded with visual content that makes us numb, passive and undiscerning consumers.
My rating: 4 stars