Caroline Brothers

War and Photography (eBook, ePUB)

A Cultural History

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Drawing on the work of Barthes, Eco, Foucault, Baudrillard, Burgin and Tagg, and on the historians of mentalities, War and Photography presents a theoretical approach to the understanding of press photography in its historical and contemporary context.
Brothers applies her argument with special reference to French and British newspaper images of the Spanish Civil War, a selection of which is presented in the book. Rejecting analyses based upon the content of the images alone, she argues that photographic meaning is largely predetermined by its institutional and cultural context. Acting as witnesses despite themselves, photographs convey a wealth of information not about any objective reality, but about the collective attitudes and beliefs particular to the culture in which they operate.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 296
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. März 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781135035297
• Artikelnr.: 38266414

Autorenporträt

Caroline Brothers

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1: Photography, Theory, History
Part I: Propaganda and Myth
2: The Republican Militiamen
3: Insurgent Soldiers and Moors
4: Women-at-Arms
Part II: The Elusive Ideal
5: Semiology and the City at War
6: The Anthropology of Civilian Life
Part III: Taboo, Anxiety and Fascination
7: Refugees and the Limitations of Documentary
8: Casualties and the Nature of Photographic Evidence
Part IV: Spain and After
9: If Not About Spain ...
10: Vietnam, the Falklands, the Gulf

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Introduction; 1: Photography, Theory, History; Part I: Propaganda and Myth; 2: The Republican Militiamen; 3: Insurgent Soldiers and Moors; 4: Women-at-Arms; Part II: The Elusive Ideal; 5: Semiology and the City at War; 6: The Anthropology of Civilian Life; Part III: Taboo, Anxiety and Fascination; 7: Refugees and the Limitations of Documentary; 8: Casualties and the Nature of Photographic Evidence; Part IV: Spain and After; 9: If Not About Spain ...; 10: Vietnam, the Falklands, the Gulf

Rezensionen

'Subtle and lucid analysis.' - Times Literary Supplement

'Subtle and lucid analysis.' - Times Literary Supplement