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Picturing Atrocity
Batchen Gidley
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Description for Picturing Atrocity
Paperback. Picturing Atrocity contains a broad range of atrocity photographs from throughout history, and around the world, as well as essays by well-known artists and photographers. All royalties from the book to be donated to Amnesty International. Editor(s): Batchen, Geoffrey; Gidley, Mick; Miller, Nancy K.; Prosser, Jay. Num Pages: 320 pages, 25 colour illustrations, 77 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: AJC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 233 x 162 x 22. Weight in Grams: 854.
Ever since the landmark publication of Susan Sontag's On Photography, it has been impossible to look at photographs, particularly those of violence and suffering, without questioning our role as photographic voyeur. Are we desensitized by the proliferation of these images? Or do the images stir our own sense of justice and act as a call to arms? Are we consuming the suffering of others? What should our responses to these images be? To answer these questions, Picturing Atrocity brings together essays from some of the foremost writers on photography today, including Rebecca Solnit, Alfredo Jaar, Ariella Azoulay, John Lucaites, Robert ... Read more
Ever since the landmark publication of Susan Sontag's On Photography, it has been impossible to look at photographs, particularly those of violence and suffering, without questioning our role as photographic voyeur. Are we desensitized by the proliferation of these images? Or do the images stir our own sense of justice and act as a call to arms? Are we consuming the suffering of others? What should our responses to these images be? To answer these questions, Picturing Atrocity brings together essays from some of the foremost writers on photography today, including Rebecca Solnit, Alfredo Jaar, Ariella Azoulay, John Lucaites, Robert ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Reaktion Books United Kingdom
Number of pages
320
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781861898722
SKU
V9781861898722
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About Batchen Gidley
Geoffrey Batchen is a photography historian and Professor of Art History at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. Mick Gidley is Emeritus Professor of American Literature and Culture at the University of Leeds, UK. Nancy K. Miller is Distinguished Professor of English and Comparative Literature, the Graduate Center, CUNY. Jay Prosser ... Read more
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