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Eugene Richards' photos show the very private moments of anger, affection, or physical abuse shared among friends, lovers, and coworkers. Richards' book, 'The Fat Baby: Stories by Eugene Richards', a collection of 15 documentary stories with photographs and text, tells exceptional stories and their literary feel makes them more intimate than the magazine style writing one would expect.

Susan Sontag, the author of 'On Photography', feels that photography, like every mass art form, is not practiced by most people as an art and no longer helping the downtrodden as it makes viewers indifferent to their cause. In her second book, 'Regarding the Pain of Others' has described the effect of technology on the media and how it has changed the way one thinks about the world.