November 7, 2010
Don't Look Away
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A group of Jews, including a young boy, is escorted from the Warsaw Ghetto by German soldiers on April 19, 1943.
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A group of Jews, including a young boy, is escorted from the Warsaw Ghetto by German soldiers on April 19, 1943.
What does it mean to look at a photograph of someone about to be murdered? While a corpse can be shocking and grotesque, at least that person is no longer suffering. It is altogether thornier, Susie Linfield writes in her new book, The Cruel Radiance: Photography and Political Violence (University of Chicago Press), to glimpse a person who is still alive but won't be for long. Linfield describes these pictures as the "most morally vexing photographic genre." Should we still
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