Regarding the Pain of Others

About “Regarding the Pain of Others”

Written twenty-five years after her classic On Photography, Susan Sontag returns to the subject of visual representations of war and violence, asking how the spectacle of others' suffering via television or newsprint affects viewers, and examining images from Goya's The Disasters of War to the American Civil War, lynchings, the Nazi death camps, and conflicts in Bosnia, Sierra Leone, Rwanda, Israel and Palestine, and September 11, 2001. Published in 2003.