Picturing atrocity : photography in crisis / edited by Geoffrey Batchen, Mick Gidley, Nancy K. Miller ; Jay Prosser, principal editor.
Batchen, Geoffrey.; Gidley, M. (Mick); Miller, Nancy K., 1941-; Prosser, Jay.
2012
TR820.5 .P478 2012 (Mapit)
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Title Picturing atrocity : photography in crisis / edited by Geoffrey Batchen, Mick Gidley, Nancy K. Miller ; Jay Prosser, principal editor.
ISBN 9781861898722 (pbk.)
186189872X (pbk.)
Imprint London : Reaktion Books, 2012.
Language English
Description 319 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 24 cm.
Call Number TR820.5 .P478 2012
Dewey Decimal Classification 770.19
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.
Note 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.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references.
Added Author Batchen, Geoffrey.
Gidley, M. (Mick)
Miller, Nancy K., 1941-
Prosser, Jay.
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1. Response and responsibility. Words can kill: Haiti and the vocabulary of disaster / Rebecca Solnit
Visible and invisible scars of Wounded Knee / Mick Gidley
Severed hands: authenticating atrocity in the Congo, 1904-13 / Christina Twomey
Atrocity and action: the performative force of the Abu Ghraib photographs / Peggy Phelan
2. Becoming iconic. Photographing atrocity: becoming iconic? / Griselda Pollock
The iconography of famine / David Campbell
A single image of famine in China / D.J. Clark
History at a standstill: agency and gender in the image of civil rights / Elizabeth Abel
3. Photographing atrocity. Body on a hillside / Susan Meiselas
Crossfire / Shahidul Alam
4. Circulation and public culture. The iconic image of the mushroom cloud and the cold war nuclear optic / Robert Hariman and John Louis Lucaites
The girl in the photograph: the visual legacies of war / Nancy K. Miller
Atrocity, the "as if," and impending death from the Khmer Rouge / Barbie Zelizer
The falling man / Tom Junod
5. Ordinary atrocities. Street photographs in crisis: Cernăuţi, Romania, c. 1943 / Marianne Hirsch and Leo Spitzer
Picturing the perpetrator / Paul Lowe
War trophy photographs: proof or pornography? / Hilary Roberts
Picturing an "ordinary atrocity": the Sharpeville massacre / Darren Newbury
6. Atrocity askance. Looking askance / Geoffrey Batchen
Documentary pictorial: Luc Delahaye's Taliban, 2001 / Mark Durden
The execution portrait / Ariella Azoulay
Toward a hyperphotography / Fred Ritchin
7. The afterlife of photographs. Lament of the images / Alfredo Jaar and David Levi Strauss
Photographic interference / Lorie Novak.

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