Beautiful Suffering Photography and the Traffic in Pain

Name: Beautiful Suffering Photography and the Traffic in Pain
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ISBN: 9780226709505

ISBN-10: 0226709507

ISBN-13: 9780226709505

Edition: 2007

Authors: Mark Reinhardt, Holly Edwards, Erina Duganne

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Susan Sontag once remarked that since the invention of the camera, photography has "kept company with death." And indeed, images of suffering human beings and devastated landscapes appear regularly in the popular media and even in contemporary art. This volume explores these painful images from the past few decades of photography, weighing in on the intense critical debate that has arisen in recent years around depictions of acute human suffering--especially those that are beautifully rendered. Drawing on works from advertising, photojournalism, art photography, and conceptual art, "Beautiful Suffering" features reproductions of all the pieces in the Williams College Museum of Art…

Book details

List price: $25.00
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 1/31/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 216
Size: 10.50" wide x 9.50" long x 0.70" tall
Weight: 2.156



Introduction


Traffic in Pain



Essays


Picturing Violence: Aesthetics and the Anxiety of Critique



A Genealogy of Orthodox Documentary



Photography After the Fact



Cover to Cover: The Life Cycle of an Image in Contemporary Visual Culture



The Pain of Images



Exhibition in Retrospect


Plates


Object Labels


Acknowledgments


Contributors