Picturing Atrocity
Photography in Crisis
by Geoffrey Batchen, Mick Gidley, Nancy K. Miller
319 pages· 2012· ISBN 9781861898722
About
A volume of essays by leading photography writers and critics, published to benefit Amnesty International, cites such examples as the work of Susan Sontag to question whether photography of disturbing images stirs empathy or voyeurism in its viewers, outlining how to look at photographs to become contextually informed. Original.
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