Discuss the implications of Susan Sontag’s claim for contemprory politics and humanitarian organization.

The problem is not that people remember through photographs but that they remember only photographs. This remembering through photographs eclipses other forms of understanding and remembering. Harrowing photographs do not inevitably lose their power to dhock. But they are not much help if the task is to understand.

Photographs do something else they hunt as.

Discuss the implications of Susan Sontag’s claim for contemporary politics and humanitarian organization.

The article that Susan Sontag wrote is called “Regarding the pain of others”

http://monoskop.org/images/a/a6/Sontag_Susan_2003_Regarding_the_Pain_of_Others.pdf