Regarding the Pain of Others

Susan Sontag returns to the subject of war and violence in our culture today--25 years after her classic On Photography. In Regarding the Pain of Others, Sontag takes a fresh look at the representation of atrocity---from Goya to The Disasters of War to photographs of the American Civil War, lynchings in the South, and the Nazi death camps---to contemporary horrific images of Bosnia, Sierra Leone, Rwanda, Israel/Palestine, and New York City on September 11th, 2001. In Regarding the Pain of Others, Susan Sontag once again changes the way we think about the uses and meanings of images in our world, and offers an important reflection about how war itself is waged (and understood) in our time.