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It created compassion in the sense that you cannot be compassionate about something you don't know about. Having reproducible images means a greater awareness o
by brianpan 4y ago
It created compassion in the sense that you cannot be compassionate about something you don't know about. Having reproducible images means a greater awareness of far away events.
In some cases (like the ones mentioned in the article), photo documentation can make things "undeniable" in a way that just knowing about some terrible, but far removed, thing cannot.
- mym1990 4y agoI agree with this. I felt like it was unclear whether the article was saying that photography created compassion itself, or photography created instances of compassion around the events in the photographs(which totally makes sense).