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And because it is active, it is easier to dramatize; it can make suffering look passive.
If it is limp, with the sort of suffering look I excel at, buy something else.
This suffering look is perfect, needless to say, for the pallid auto-crucifixion stunt that is "Live to Tell" in the Confessions tour.
Then came Wayne Thiebaud's sly, joyous paintings to the Whitney, and Sebastião Salgado's expert photographs at the International Center of Photography to pose the question: should suffering look so beautiful?
His hypothesis -- that those suffering look for someone to blame in order to anaesthetize their pain -- is now well-supported by work in empirical psychology.
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Photographers like Walker Evans and Dorothea Lange recorded what suffering looked like; artists created idealistic murals and sculptures.
At one point, I looked at my poor father, still in pain despite all the apparatus, and thought, "This is what suffering looks like".
On the outside, the countries we admired, Europe and America, paid us the insult of befriending our dictators and, when it came to our suffering, looking the other way.
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