| Description |
xiii, 274 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some colour), portraits (some colour) ; 24 cm |
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International library of visual culture 15 |
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International library of visual culture ; 15
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| Contents |
Contents note continued: 10.The Forensic Turn: Bearing Witness and the ̀Thingness' of the Photograph -- Paul Lowe -- 11.Ruins and Traces: Exhibiting Conflict in Guy Tillim's Leopold and Mobutu -- Caitlin Patrick |
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Machine generated contents note: pt. I Framing Civil and (Post-)Colonial Conflict -- 1.The Incorruptible Kodak: Photography, Human Rights and the Congo Campaign -- Christina Twomey -- 2.̀Follow the Americans': Philip Jones Griffiths's Vietnam War Trilogy -- Liam Kennedy -- 3.The Violence of the Image: Conflict and Post-Conflict Photography in Northern Ireland -- Justin Carville -- 4.Dispelling the Myth of Invisibility: Photography and the Algerian Civil War -- Joseph McGonagle -- pt. II Politics and Photographic Ethics at the Turn of the Twentieth Century -- 5.The Myth of Compassion Fatigue -- David Campbell -- 6.Infra-Destructure -- Ariella Azoulay -- 7.Watching War Evolve: Photojournalism and New Forms of Violence -- Robert Hariman -- pt. III The ̀Unstable' Image: Photography as Evidence and Ambivalence -- 8.Photo-Reportage of the Libyan Conflict -- Stuart Allan -- 9.Witnessing Precarity: Photojournalism, Women's/Human/Rights and the War in Afghanistan -- Wendy Kozol -- |
| Summary |
Photography has visualized international relations and conflicts from the mid-nineteenth century onwards and continues to be an important medium in framing the worlds of distant and suffering others. This book examines the roles of image producers and the functions of photographic imagery in the documentation and communication of wars, violent conflicts and human rights issues. The book focuses on photojournalism, the premier visual genre in news media framing of international affairs through much of the twentieth century. Many photojournalists promote an ethos of critique, ethically underwritten by the idea of witnessing and affective appeals to action based on displays of human suffering. The book deals with the much-cited concept of compassion fatigue and shows how public commitment to such a documentary ethos remains strong today. This book also engages with the ways in which the newer vernacular and artistic modes of photographic production, including digital photography, camera phones and social media platforms, articulate international friction. This is a welcome, innovative contribution to writing and thinking on media and conflict |
| Notes |
Formerly CIP. Uk |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Also issued online |
| Subject |
Documentary photography.
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Photojournalism.
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Political violence in mass media.
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Violence -- Press coverage.
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Photojournalism -- Social aspects.
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War photography -- History.
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War photography.
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| Author |
Kennedy, Liam, 1961- editor
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Patrick, Caitlin, editor
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| LC no. |
2014498341 |
| ISBN |
9781780767888 (hardback) |
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9781780767895 (paperback) |
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