Limits of the Visible: Representing the Great Hunger by Luke Gibbons

Limits of the Visible: Representing the Great Hunger

Famine Folios

Luke Gibbons

40 pages missing pub info (editions)

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The absence of photographs of the Irish Famine has been attributed to the shortcomings of a medium then it its infancy, but it may also be due to certain limitations in the visible itself. Susan Sontag argued that images can evoke sentimental resp...

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