Research Catalog

Title

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

Publication

London : Reaktion Books, 2012.

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Additional Authors

• Batchen, Geoffrey.
• Gidley, M. (Mick)
• Miller, Nancy K., 1941-
• Prosser, Jay.

Description

319 pages : illustrations (some color); 24 cm

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.

Subject

• Documentary photography
• Photographs > Psychological aspects
• Atrocities > Case studies

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

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.

Call Number

MFW 15-5751

ISBN

• 9781861898722 (pbk.)
• 186189872X (pbk.)

OCLC

793891718

Title

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

Imprint

London : Reaktion Books, 2012.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references.

Added Author

Batchen, Geoffrey.

Gidley, M. (Mick)

Miller, Nancy K., 1941-

Prosser, Jay.

Research Call Number

MFW 15-5751