Regarding the Pain of Others

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Regarding the Pain of Others (ISBN 0374248583) was Susan Sontag's last published book before her death in 2004. It is, in a way, a follow-up to On Photography despite the fact that the two books have radically different opinions about photography. This long essay focuses on war photography. Using photography to back up her points, Sontag sets out to answer one of the three questions posed by Virginia Woolf in her book Three Guineas, "How should war be prevented?"