num_pages: 131
description: An examination of the role of imagery in modern culture considers how depictions of violence, from wartime photographs to footage of the September 11 attacks, are used and how they impact the world. By the author of On Photography. 20,000 first printing.
language: English
title: Regarding the Pain of Others
titlecomplete: Regarding the Pain of Others
genres: Theory, War, Philosophy, Psychology, Nonfiction, Essays, Art, Sociology, History, Photography
ratings_count: 16145
awards: awardedAt: 1041408000000
name: National Book Critics Circle Award
category: Criticism, awardedAt: 1072944000000
name: Susanne K. Langer Award
category: Outstanding Scholarship in the Ecology of Symbolic Form
publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux