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Essay · 2003

Regarding the Pain of Others

Susan Sontag

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Regarding the Pain of Others
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War photography and the ethics of looking at suffering. Sontag's final major essay.

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War photography and the ethics of looking at suffering. Sontag's final major essay.

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War photography and the ethics of looking at suffering. Sontag's final major essay.

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