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Bataille's Photograph

This object depicts "the death of a hundred cuts," an execution method in which the prisoner is dismembered alive.

Krieg dem Krieg

Ernst Friedrich depicts of the horrors of World War I in this work.

Newspapers

This is a type of media governed by standards for decency and rarely represents images of mass casualty.

Tabloids

This is a type of media likely to depict graphic scenes of suffering.

Vietnam

This was the first site of extended, modern journalism.

Concentration Camps

Sontag argues that the infamous images of these places sanitize the representation of atrocities by depicting them empty and out of use.

European Western Front, 1914

The mass casualties of this place could only be represented through early war photography.

World Trade Center

Sontag uses this place as a contemporary example of atrocity photography.

Bosnia

This place was often photographed as it suffered a campaign of ethnic...

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