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Picturing atrocity : photography in crisis /

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.

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Batchen, Geoffrey, Gidley, M. (Mick), Miller, Nancy K., 1941-, Prosser, Jay
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: London : Reaktion Books, 2012.
Subjects:
Documentary photography.
Photographs > Psychological aspects.
Atrocities > Case studies.
Table of 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.