Take these two concluding sentences from David Campbell's Salgado and the Sahel, an essay on images of famine.
"Photographs are a modality of power, and the bulk of contemporary famine images conform to colonial economies of representation. In contrast to the depoliticization of disasters through such pictures, Salgado's compartment vis-a-vis his subject’s functions as an ethical and responsibilizing practice in which the aesthetic repoliticizes, making it possible to envisage a humanitarian ethos."
Interesting essay, though I'm not really sure what it is it's concluding. Perhaps someone should right on essay on understanding this essay. I feel this is a subject I shall return to.
So there you go, 54 words. I feel I should declare that I am a sub for the Daily Star in my day job. I can confidently say that at least 15 of these words would be substituted before the passage got anywhere near print. Even then it would be far too complex.
Like I said before, the Plain English Group would have a field day.
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