The Violence of the Image

Photography and International Conflict
Herausgeber: Kennedy, Liam; Patrick, Caitlin

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Produktbeschreibung

Photography has visualized international relations and conflicts from the midnineteenth century onwards and continues to be an important medium in framing the worlds of distant, suffering others

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. Juli 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 157mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 612g
• ISBN-13: 9781780767888
• ISBN-10: 1780767889
• Artikelnr.: 41317102

Autorenporträt

Liam Kennedy is Professor of American Studies and Director of the Clinton Institute for American Studies at University College Dublin, Ireland. He is the author of" Susan Sontag: Mind as Passion "(1995) and "Race and Urban Space in American Culture" (2000), and editor of "Urban Space and Representation" (1999), "The Visual Culture of Urban Regeneration" (2004), and "The Wire: Race, Class and Genre" (2012). Caitlin Patrick was Postdoctoral Fellow for the Photography and International Conflict project at University College Dublin from 2008-2011 and she is currently a Research Associate for Bournemouth University on a joint project entitled I-Witnessing: Global Crisis Reporting Through the Amateur Lens.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations viiContributors xiiIntroduction: The Violence of the
Image - Liam Kennedyand Caitlin Patrick 1Part I: Framing Civil and
(Post-)Colonial Conflict 71 The Incorruptible Kodak: Photography, Human
Rightsand the Congo Campaign - Christina Twomey 92 'Follow the Americans':
Philip Jones Griffiths's VietnamWar Trilogy - Liam Kennedy 343 The Violence
of the Image: Conflict and Post-ConflictPhotography in Northern Ireland -
Justin Carville 604 Dispelling the Myth of Invisibility: Photography and
theAlgerian Civil War - Joseph McGonagle 78Part II: Politics and
Photographic Ethics at the Turn of theTwentieth Century 955 The Myth of
Compassion Fatigue - David Campbell 976 Infra-Destructure - Ariella Azoulay
1257 Watching War Evolve: Photojournalism and New Formsof Violence - Robert
Hariman 139Part III: The 'Unstable' Image: Photography as Evidence
andAmbivalence 1658 Photo-Reportage of the Libyan Conflict - Stuart Allan
167vi THE VIOLENCE OF THE IMAGE9 Witnessing Precarity: Photojournalism,
Women's/Human/Rights and the War in Afghanistan - Wendy Kozol 19310 The
Forensic Turn: Bearing Witness and the 'Thingness'of the Photograph - Paul
Lowe 21111 Ruins and Traces: Exhibiting Conflict in Guy Tillim'sLeopold and
Mobutu - Caitlin Patrick 235Select Bibliography 256Index 274