“A new iconography of wretchedness is produced in times of famine, and yet language essentiall
“A new iconography of wretchedness is produced in times of famine, and yet language essentially fails in grasping this ultimate fall into desperation. (There is a close association between humanity’s affective capacities and the experience of endemic hunger: this is little surveyed in reflective studies of famine’s legacy.) Across modern history, artists have taken up the representational challenge and been the foremost chroniclers of these man-made calamities.” –Natasha Ginwala, So Many Hungers (bit.ly/2RaKsMk) [Sunil Janah, orphans waiting for food at a famine-relief center during the famine in Orissa, 1944] -- source link