| Description |
1 online resource (xviii, 321 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
Preface: The Black book -- Polemics. A little history of photography criticism; or, Why do photography critics hate photography? -- Photojournalism and human rights: the calamity of the Kodak -- Places. Warsaw, Loda, Auschwitz: in the waiting room of death -- China: from Malraux's dignity to the Red Guards' shame -- Sierra Leone: beyond the sorrow and the pity -- Abu Ghraib and the jihad: the dance of civilizations -- People. Robert Capa: the optimist -- James Nachtwey: the catastrophist -- Gilles Peress: the skeptic |
| Summary |
Since the early days of photography, critics have told us that photos of political violence--of torture, mutilation, and death--are exploitative, deceitful, even pornographic. To look at these images is voyeuristic; to turn away is a gesture of respect. With The Cruel Radiance, Susie Linfield attacks those ideas head-on, arguing passionately that viewing such photographs--and learning to see the people in them--is an ethically and politically necessary act that connects us to our modern history of violence and probes our capacity for cruelty. Contending with critics from Walter Benjamin and Bertol |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCOhost, viewed August 10, 2020) |
| Subject |
Documentary photography.
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Political violence in mass media.
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Violence -- Press coverage.
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Photographic criticism.
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Photojournalism.
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documentary photography.
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journalistic photography.
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PHOTOGRAPHY -- Photojournalism.
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Photojournalism
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Documentary photography
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Photographic criticism
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Political violence in mass media
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Violence -- Press coverage
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Bildpublizistik
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Dokumentarfotografie
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Gewalt
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Krieg
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Politik
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Dokumentarphotographie.
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Massenmedien.
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Gewalt.
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Motiv.
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Berichterstattung.
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Documentary photography.
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Violence in photography.
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Politiskt våld i massmedia.
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Dokumentärfotografi.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2010013705 |
| ISBN |
9780226482521 |
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0226482529 |
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1282901966 |
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9781282901964 |
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9786612901966 |
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6612901969 |
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