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Warworks : women, photography and the iconography of war

Title
Warworks : women, photography and the iconography of war / Val Williams.
Author
Williams, Val, 1949-
Publication
London : Virago, 1994.

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Description
96 p. : ill. (some col.); 28 cm.
Summary
Explores the ways in which women photographers have used war to express major issues in contemporary art and society.
Subject
  • War photography
  • Women photographers
  • War photographers
  • Women and war
  • war photography
  • 21.42 history of photographic art
  • Fotografie
  • Geschichte
  • Fotografin
  • Oorlogsfotografie
  • Vrouwen
  • Iconografie
  • Krieg
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Introduction: From the private to the public : photography, memory and the iconography of war -- Landscape revisited : the rural iconography of the First World War -- Shadows on the body : photographs and the holocaust -- The myth and the media: Photography and the Vietnam War, 1968-1992 -- The unredeemed past : enigmas of collective memory, 1980-1992 -- It's a man's world : photography, fantasy and fetish in the 1990s.
ISBN
  • 1853815918
  • 9781853815911
LCCN
95212286
OCLC
  • ocm32055695
  • 32055695
  • SCSB-2092470
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library