Limits of the Visible: Representing the Great Hunger

by Luke Gibbons

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 responses but cannot address wider political questions of obligation and justice. Luke Gibbons revisits representations of the Famine, particularly those in Ireland's Great Hunger Museum, to argue that images...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0990468623
• ISBN13: 9780990468622
• Release Date: April 2015
• Publisher: Cork University Press
• Length: 40 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 8.8" x 10.7"