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Picturing atrocity : photography in crisis / edited by Geoffrey Batchen, Mick Gidley, Nancy K. Miller ; Jay Prosser, principal editor.

Contributor(s): Publication details: London : Reaktion Books, 2012.Description: 319 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9781861898722
  • 186189872X
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • TR820.5 .P478 2012
Contents:
The Iconic Image of the Mushroom Cloud and the Cold War Nuclear Optic / Nancy K. Miller -- The Girl in the Photograph: The Visual Legacies of War / Barbie Zelizer -- Atrocity, the "As If," and Impending Death from the Khmer Rouge / Tom Junod -- The Falling Man -- Ordinary Atrocities / Marianne Hirsch, Leo Spitzer -- Street Photographs in Crisis: Cernauti, Romania, c. 1943 / Paul Lowe -- Picturing the Perpetrator / Hilary Roberts -- War Trophy Photographs: Proof or Pornography? / Darren Newbury -- Picturing an "Ordinary Atrocity": The Sharpeville Massacre -- Atrocity Askance / Geoffrey Batchen -- Looking Askance / Mark Durden -- Documentary Pictorial: Luc Delahaye's Taliban, 2001 / Ariella Azoulay -- The Execution Portrait / Fred Ritchin -- Toward a Hyperphotography -- The Afterlife of Photographs / Alfredo Jaar, David Levi Strauss -- Lament of the Images / Lorie Novak -- Photographic Interference.
Summary: This title taps into the widespread interest in, and concern about, photographs of atrocity. The book contains a broad range of atrocity photographs from throughout history and around the world, as well as essays by well-known artists and photographers.
Holdings
Item type Current library Shelving location Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode
Book Book NMC Library Stacks NR444 .P478 2012 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 33039001214666

Includes bibliographical references.

The Iconic Image of the Mushroom Cloud and the Cold War Nuclear Optic / Nancy K. Miller -- The Girl in the Photograph: The Visual Legacies of War / Barbie Zelizer -- Atrocity, the "As If," and Impending Death from the Khmer Rouge / Tom Junod -- The Falling Man -- Ordinary Atrocities / Marianne Hirsch, Leo Spitzer -- Street Photographs in Crisis: Cernauti, Romania, c. 1943 / Paul Lowe -- Picturing the Perpetrator / Hilary Roberts -- War Trophy Photographs: Proof or Pornography? / Darren Newbury -- Picturing an "Ordinary Atrocity": The Sharpeville Massacre -- Atrocity Askance / Geoffrey Batchen -- Looking Askance / Mark Durden -- Documentary Pictorial: Luc Delahaye's Taliban, 2001 / Ariella Azoulay -- The Execution Portrait / Fred Ritchin -- Toward a Hyperphotography -- The Afterlife of Photographs / Alfredo Jaar, David Levi Strauss -- Lament of the Images / Lorie Novak -- Photographic Interference.

This title taps into the widespread interest in, and concern about, photographs of atrocity. The book contains a broad range of atrocity photographs from throughout history and around the world, as well as essays by well-known artists and photographers.

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