Private Pictures: Soldiers' Inside View of War

ISBN-13: 9781848854420 / Angielski / Twarda / 2011 / 230 str.

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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 GHRAIB SOUVENIRS FROM IRAQ UNCOVERING THE EVIDENCE THE GLUT OF PICTURES WHAT DID THE PICTURES MEAN? SUPPRESSION OF THE EVIDENCE Chapter Two: LEARNING TO PHOTOGRAPH WAR WILD IMAGINING A SOLDIER'S CAMERA ARMY OF SNAPSHOOTERS THE DISAPPOINTMENT OF PHOTOGRAPHY PHOTOGRAPHY ON THE HOME FRONT SNAPSHOTS FROM HOME CHAPTER THREE: TELLING TALES A SAILOR'S PHOTO ALBUM TOURISTS IN UNIFORM FRAGMENTS OF WAR THOSE WERE THE DAYS CHAPTER FOUR: PHOTOGRAPHS AS RESISTANCE DANGEROUS OCCUPATION ARMED WITH CAMERAS A PICTURE AT WAR RECOVERED MEMORIES Chapter Five: PICTURES HAUNT A NATION A VISIT TO THE ARCHIVES THE MYTH OF THE PAST SCARS OF A GENERATION THE STORIES THEY TELL WHAT THE PICTURES SHOW RESEALING THE PAST. Chapter Six: INADMISSABLE EVIDENCE "BRITAIN'S ABU GHRAIB" INCRIMINATING EVIDENCE THE MIRROR'S GREAT SCOOP CRIMES OF WAR Chapter Seven: BREAKING THE SILENCE THE BANALITY OF PICTURES SPREADING THE WORD "OUR OWN ABU GHRAIB" Chapter Eight: THE INSIDE VIEW OF WAR A PARTICULAR KIND OF TRUTH IN SEARCH OF THE REAL THING HARDCORE WARNOGRAPHY MOVIES THAT STAR THEM REINVENTING THE REAL Notes Index

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.