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A carregar... Regarding the Pain of Others (2003)por Susan Sontag
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Adira ao LibraryThing para descobrir se irá gostar deste livro. Ainda não há conversas na Discussão sobre este livro. She covers the ground elegantly, in no particular order. Her style is crisp, firm, and writerly, though not without a self-conscious overlay. She has a bit of a diva's pulsating grandeur, but actually she's more like an athletic dancer, picking her spots and impeccably closing in with pleasing quick-step combinations and leaps. She's probably too irregular to be a scholar's expository ideal, but damn she puts on a fine show. Her mind cracks it along like a circus tamer's whip. You don't have to like her, but it's hard not to salute her. La contemplación del sufrimiento ajeno puede despertar compasión, placer o indiferencia. La aparición de la fotografía transformó el dolor en imagen perdurable. Sontag se pregunta si fotografiar las atrocidades de guerra, las epidemias de hambre o las catástrofes naturales es una forma de solidaridad o una perversión del instinto. La imposibilidad de elaborar “una ecología de las imágenes” no disminuye su importancia como testimonio. Ninguna imagen agota el horror que reproduce, pero garantiza el ejercicio de la memoria. La fotografía no es un simple testigo. Produce realidad, historia. Es una interpelación permanente que nos impide la autocomplacencia y nos invita actuar. sem críticas | adicionar uma crítica
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Watching the evening news offers constant evidence of atrocity--a daily commonplace in our "society of spectacle." But are viewers inured--or incited--to violence by the daily depiction of cruelty and horror? Is the viewer's perception of reality eroded by the universal availability of imagery intended to shock? In this investigation of the role of imagery in our culture, Susan Sontag cuts through circular arguments about how pictures can inspire dissent or foster violence as she takes a fresh look at the representation of atrocity--from Goya's The Disasters of War to photographs of the American Civil War, lynchings of blacks in the South, and Dachau and Auschwitz to contemporary horrific images of Bosnia, Sierra Leone, Rwanda, and New York City on September 11, 2001. Sontag's new book, a startling reappraisal of the intersection of "information", "news," "art," and politics in the contemporary depiction of war and disaster, will forever alter our thinking about the uses and meanings of images in our world. Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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Google Books — A carregar... GénerosSistema Decimal de Melvil (DDC)303.6Social sciences Social Sciences; Sociology and anthropology Social Processes Conflict and conflict resolution ; ViolenceClassificação da Biblioteca do Congresso dos EUA (LCC)AvaliaçãoMédia:
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What does a photo communicate? Especially a photo of human suffering, of pain, or destruction? What are journalists and propagandists "saying" when they publish the graphic loss of life, limb, or dignity? ( )