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In this research paper I am going to compare the viewpoints of Susan Sontag in Regarding the Pain of Others (2003) and On Photography (1977) with that of Judith Butler in Frames of War: When is Life Grievable(2009) on the concept of photography. In Butler's book there is a chapter titled "Torture and the Ethics of Photography: Thinking with Sontag" in which she has presented aefficacious critique of media. While elucidating the phenomenon of embedded reporting, Butler reaches to a different idea of the photographic frame and its relation to interpretive practices.Her major point is how the suffering of others is perceived and responded to when a certain norm restricts our perception.Their respective standpoints on the representation of suffering through photographs and the latter's ability to shock will be the focus of my analysis.

Photographic Ethics: Juxtaposing Susan Sontag and Judith Butler

"Photographic Ethics: Juxtaposing Susan Sontag and Judith Butler", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 6, page no.382-389, June-2019, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1908C48.pdf

"Photographic Ethics: Juxtaposing Susan Sontag and Judith Butler", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 6, page no. pp382-389, June-2019, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1908C48.pdf