Slow Looking: The Ethics and Politics of Aesthetics: Jill Bennett,Empathic Vision: Affect,Trauma,and Contemporary Art (Stanford,CA: Stanford University Press,2005) Mark Reinhardt,Holly Edwards,and Erina Duganne,Beautiful Suffering: Photography and the Traffic in Pain (Chicago,IL: University of Chicago Press,2007) Gillo Pontecorvo,director,The Battle of Algiers (Criterion: Special Three-Disc Edition,2004)

Abstract

This review essay treats three texts: Jill Bennett, Empathic Vision: Affect, Trauma, and Contemporary Art; Mark Reinhardt, Holly Edwards, and Erina Duganne, Beautiful Suffering: Photography and the Traffic in Pain; and The Battle of Algiers, directed by Gillo Pontecorvo.