Private Pictures: Soldiers' Inside View of War

ISBN-13: 9781848854437 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 230 str.

Janina Struk

Opis

Snapshots taken by American soldiers of Iraqi prisoners stripped naked, humiliated and tortured shocked the world in 2004 but, as this remarkable book relates, soldiers have taken photographs of the gruesome or sociable, shocking or mundane aspects of war for more than 100 years. Now, with the twenty-first century shift to simple digital photography and internet communications, a glut of highly disturbing images -- videos and stills -- is being posted on the inernet by western forces in Iraq and Afghanistan, with alarming results. Private Pictures traces this unacknowledged genre of photography from the origins of popular photography in the Boer War through the two World Wars, to the digital age. 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?

Spis treści

List of Illustrations Preface Chapter One: OUTRAGE AT ABU GHRAIBSOUVENIRS FROM IRAQUNCOVERING THE EVIDENCETHE GLUT OF PICTURESWHAT DID THE PICTURES MEAN?SUPPRESSION OF THE EVIDENCEChapter Two: LEARNING TO PHOTOGRAPH WARWILD IMAGININGA SOLDIER'S CAMERAARMY OF SNAPSHOOTERSTHE DISAPPOINTMENT OF PHOTOGRAPHYPHOTOGRAPHY ON THE HOME FRONTSNAPSHOTS FROM HOME CHAPTER THREE: TELLING TALES A SAILOR'S PHOTO ALBUMTOURISTS IN UNIFORMFRAGMENTS OF WARTHOSE WERE THE DAYSCHAPTER FOUR: PHOTOGRAPHS AS RESISTANCE DANGEROUS OCCUPATIONARMED WITH CAMERASA PICTURE AT WARRECOVERED MEMORIESChapter Five: PICTURES HAUNT A NATIONA VISIT TO THE ARCHIVESTHE MYTH OF THE PASTSCARS OF A GENERATIONTHE STORIES THEY TELLWHAT THE PICTURES SHOWRESEALING THE PAST.Chapter Six: INADMISSABLE EVIDENCE"BRITAIN'S ABU GHRAIB"INCRIMINATING EVIDENCETHE MIRROR'S GREAT SCOOPCRIMES OF WARChapter Seven: BREAKING THE SILENCE THE BANALITY OF PICTURESSPREADING THE WORD"OUR OWN ABU GHRAIB"Chapter Eight: THE INSIDE VIEW OF WARA PARTICULAR KIND OF TRUTHIN SEARCH OF THE REAL THINGHARDCORE WARNOGRAPHYMOVIES THAT STAR THEMREINVENTING THE REALNotesIndex

O autorze

Janina Struk is a freelance photographer and writer, and author of the highly acclaimed 'Photographing the Holocaust', also published by I.B. Tauris.