Making Pictures Of War
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Author |
: Cara A. Finnegan |
Publisher |
: University of Illinois Press |
Total Pages |
: 257 |
Release |
: 2015-05-30 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780252097317 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0252097319 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (17 Downloads) |
Synopsis Making Photography Matter by : Cara A. Finnegan
Photography became a dominant medium in cultural life starting in the late nineteenth century. As it happened, viewers increasingly used their reactions to photographs to comment on and debate public issues as vital as war, national identity, and citizenship. Cara A. Finnegan analyzes a wealth of newspaper and magazine articles, letters to the editor, trial testimony, books, and speeches produced by viewers in response to specific photos they encountered in public. From the portrait of a young Lincoln to images of child laborers and Depression-era hardship, Finnegan treats the photograph as a locus for viewer engagement and constructs a history of photography's viewers that shows how Americans used words about images to participate in the politics of their day. As she shows, encounters with photography helped viewers negotiate the emergent anxieties and crises of U.S. public life through not only persuasion but action, as well.
Author |
: Laura Battini |
Publisher |
: Archaeopress Publishing Ltd |
Total Pages |
: 106 |
Release |
: 2016-07-10 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781784914042 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1784914045 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (42 Downloads) |
Synopsis Making Pictures of War by : Laura Battini
This book brings together the main discussions that took place at an international conference on the iconology of war in the ancient Near East, a subject never addressed at an international meeting before.
Author |
: David Shields |
Publisher |
: Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages |
: 112 |
Release |
: 2019-06-11 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781576879498 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1576879496 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (98 Downloads) |
Synopsis War is Beautiful - The New York Times Pictorial Guide to the Glamour of Armed Conflict by : David Shields
Bestselling author David Shields analyzed over a decade's worth of front-page war photographs fromTheNew York Timesand came to a shocking conclusion: the photo-editing process ofthe "paper of record,"by way of pretty, heroic, and lavishly aesthetic image selection, pullsthe woolover the eyes of its readers; Shields forces us to face not only the the media's complicity in dubious and catastrophic military campaigns but our own as well.This powerful media mouthpiece, the mightyTimes, far from being a check on governmental power, is in reality a massive amplifier for its dark forces by virtue of the way it aestheticizeswarfare. Anyone baffled by the willful American involvement in Iraq and Afghanistan can't help but see in this book how eagerly and invariably theTimesled the way in making the case for these wars through the manipulation of its visuals. Shields forces the reader to weigh the consequences of our own passivity in the face of these images' opiatic numbing. The photographs gathered inWar Is Beautiful, often beautiful and always artful, are filters of reality rather than the documentary journalism they purport to be.
Author |
: Anne Tucker |
Publisher |
: Museum of Fine Arts (Houston) |
Total Pages |
: 0 |
Release |
: 2012 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0300177380 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780300177381 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (80 Downloads) |
Synopsis War/photography by : Anne Tucker
Contains primary source material.
Author |
: Anita Lobel |
Publisher |
: Turtleback Books |
Total Pages |
: 0 |
Release |
: 2008-09-16 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0613285905 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780613285902 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (05 Downloads) |
Synopsis No Pretty Pictures by : Anita Lobel
Relates the popular children's book author's early life spent in hiding and in concentration camps in Poland.
Author |
: John F. Lehman |
Publisher |
: Scribner Book Company |
Total Pages |
: 328 |
Release |
: 1992 |
ISBN-10 |
: UOM:39015021547826 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (26 Downloads) |
Synopsis Making War by : John F. Lehman
"Former Secretary of the Navy John Lehman here confronts one of the momentous issues of American history and the American present--the contending prerogatives of the president and Congress in making war." "Lehman, a lively controversialist and scholar, examines the history of American military decision making from the Revolutionary period to the Gulf War. Whose power is it to declare war, to carry it out, and to sustain its course and bring it to an end? In addressing these major constitutional questions, Lehman is vibrantly contemporary, too, writing as a government insider to offer a exceptionally vivid perspective on Operation Desert Storm and recent military actions in Grenada, Libya, Lebanon, and Panama. Arguing vehemently for the primacy of presidential over congressional power, Lehman adds crucial new details to our understanding of the post-Vietnam era of American politics." "Characteristically, Lehman pulls no punches. He sheds provocative new light on congressional investigations into Watergate and Iran-Contra, authoritatively demonstrating the ways in which Congress has created crippling impediments to presidential power. Yet he provides a fresh understanding of the essential role Congress must play in committing the nation to war, and he enumerates how presidents from Jefferson to Bush have interpreted--and misinterpreted--the powers grated them as commander in chief." "John Lehman's enlightening new book makes a invaluable contribution as to whether responsible judgments will be made if and when the nation must again confront the crucial decision of making war."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Author |
: W. J. T. Mitchell |
Publisher |
: University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages |
: 239 |
Release |
: 2011 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780226532608 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0226532607 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (08 Downloads) |
Synopsis Cloning Terror by : W. J. T. Mitchell
The phrase 'War on Terror' has quietly been retired from official usage, but it persists in the American psyche, and our understanding of it is hardly complete. Exploring the role of verbal and visual images in the War on Terror, the author finds a conflict whose shaky metaphoric and imaginary conception has created its own reality.
Author |
: Susan Sontag |
Publisher |
: Farrar, Straus and Giroux |
Total Pages |
: 146 |
Release |
: 2013-10-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781466853577 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1466853573 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (77 Downloads) |
Synopsis Regarding the Pain of Others by : Susan Sontag
A brilliant, clear-eyed consideration of the visual representation of violence in our culture--its ubiquity, meanings, and effects. Considered one of the greatest critics of her generation, Susan Sontag followed up her monumental On Photography with an extended study of human violence, reflecting on a question first posed by Virginia Woolf in Three Guineas: How in your opinion are we to prevent war? "For a long time some people believed that if the horror could be made vivid enough, most people would finally take in the outrageousness, the insanity of war." One of the distinguishing features of modern life is that it supplies countless opportunities for regarding (at a distance, through the medium of photography) horrors taking place throughout the world. But are viewers inured—or incited—to violence by the depiction of cruelty? Is the viewer’s perception of reality eroded by the daily barrage of such images? What does it mean to care about the sufferings of others far away? First published more than twenty years after her now classic book On Photography, which changed how we understand the very condition of being modern, Regarding the Pain of Others challenges our thinking not only about the uses and means of images, but about how war itself is waged (and understood) in our time, the limits of sympathy, and the obligations of conscience.
Author |
: Janina Struk |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 242 |
Release |
: 2020-09-14 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781000213454 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1000213455 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (54 Downloads) |
Synopsis Private Pictures by : Janina Struk
Snapshots taken by American soldiers of Iraqi prisoners stripped naked, humiliated and tortured shocked the world in 2004 and more have followed from the conflict in Afghanistan, but whether the public have been horrified by the soldiers' conduct or the fact they have taken pictures has not been clear. In fact, as this remarkable book reveals and relates, soldiers have taken photographs of war and its atrocities for more than 100 years. But their pictures are private, intended mainly for the soldiers themselves, as mementoes or as attempts to make sense of the chaos, brutality and boredom of war. They can be gruesome or sociable, shocking or mundane and they are seldom regarded as serious contributions to a visual culture of war, which since 1939 has been dominated by professional war photography. But with the 21st-century shift to simple digital photography, transmission by the internet available to all, and a new 'citizen journalism', soldiers' pictures are acquiring a new resonance."Private Pictures" traces this unacknowledged genre of photography from the origins of popular photography in the Boer War through to the present day; it discusses how the images have been used and it asks: what effect might the wider appreciation of soldiers' pictures have on the popular perception of war?
Author |
: Lynsey Addario |
Publisher |
: Penguin |
Total Pages |
: 274 |
Release |
: 2018-10-23 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780525560036 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0525560033 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (36 Downloads) |
Synopsis Of Love & War by : Lynsey Addario
“Spectacular . . . a majestic collection that captures the drama of everyday existence in war zones around the world. . . . There is no disputing the impact of this revelatory collection.” —BookPage From the Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist and New York Times bestselling author, a stunning and personally curated selection of her work across the Middle East, South Asia, and Africa Pulitzer Prize–winning photojournalist and MacArthur Fellow Lynsey Addario has spent the last two decades bearing witness to the world’s most urgent humanitarian and human rights crises. Traveling to the most dangerous and remote corners to document crucial moments such as Afghanistan under the Taliban immediately before and after the 9/11 attacks, Iraq following the US-led invasion and dismantlement of Saddam Hussein’s government, and western Sudan in the aftermath of the genocide in Darfur, she has captured through her photographs visual testimony not only of war and injustice but also of humanity, dignity, and resilience. In this compelling collection of more than two hundred photographs, Addario’s commitment to exposing the devastating consequences of human conflict is on full display. Her subjects include the lives of female members of the military, as well as the trauma and abuse inflicted on women in male-dominated societies; American soldiers rescuing comrades in the Korengal Valley of Afghanistan, and Libyan opposition troops trading fire in Benghazi. Interspersed between her commanding and arresting images are personal journal entries and letters, as well as revelatory essays from esteemed writers such as Dexter Filkins, Suzy Hansen, and Lydia Polgreen. A powerful and singular work from one of the most brilliant and influential photojournalists working today, Of Love & War is a breathtaking record of our complex world in all its inescapable chaos, conflict, and beauty.