Looking at Other People's Suffering
"Looking at Other People's Suffering" (2003) is one of the last books published during the lifetime of Susan Sontag. In it, the critic returns to her famous work "On Photography" (1977), adding, nearly thirty years later, a kind of afterword reflecting on the nature of photographic images. This time, the focus is on war photography, documentary and staged images of others' suffering, their meaning and purpose.