Picturing Peace
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"What is the relationship between peace and photography? How are artists and curators motivated to convey narratives of peace and not just stories of war? Does the digital afterlife of iconic images reveal societal shifts towards conflict transformation? Providing interdisciplinary and international perspectives on important research questions, Picturing Peace explores issues of identity construction, collective memory, and imagined futures in the creating and sustaining of civil societies. How things look and are perceived are not superficial issues; when it comes to war and conflict,…mehr

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"What is the relationship between peace and photography? How are artists and curators motivated to convey narratives of peace and not just stories of war? Does the digital afterlife of iconic images reveal societal shifts towards conflict transformation? Providing interdisciplinary and international perspectives on important research questions, Picturing Peace explores issues of identity construction, collective memory, and imagined futures in the creating and sustaining of civil societies. How things look and are perceived are not superficial issues; when it comes to war and conflict, photography is vitally relevant not only to fomenting violence, but also to rebuilding peaceful societies"--
Autorenporträt
Tom Allbeson is Senior Lecturer in Media History at the School of Journalism, Media and Culture at Cardiff University, UK. He is co-editor of the Journal of War and Culture Studies, author of Photography, Reconstruction and the Cultural History of the Postwar European City, and co-author of Conflicting Images: Histories of War Photography in the News (2024). His research concerns media history and visual culture in contemporary Europe and the US with specialisms in photojournalism and conflict, visual culture and reconstruction, collective memory in post-conflict societies, and urban history. Jolyon Mitchell is Professor of Communications, Arts and Religion at the University of Edinburgh, UK, and Director of the Centre for Theology and Public Issues (CTPI). His research and teaching focuses on religion, violence and peacebuilding with particular reference to the visual arts. He has published extensively on the uses of different media arts in promoting peace and inciting violence. Pippa Oldfield is Senior Lecturer in Photography at Teesside University, UK, and former Head of Programme at Impressions Gallery, Bradford. She is the author of Photography and War and has curated numerous exhibitions on the topic of conflict and its aftermath including Bringing the War Home: Photographic Responses to Recent Conflict in Iraq and Afghanistan and No Man's Land: Women's Photographic Viewpoints on the First World War.