Main entry:

Brothers, Caroline, author.

Title & Author:

War and photography : a cultural history / Caroline Brothers.

Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 1997.

Description:

xvi, 277 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 249-268) and index.
1. Photography, theory, history. -- Part I. Propaganda and myth: the combatants. -- 2. The republican militiamen. -- 3. Insurgent soldiers and moors. -- 4. Women-at-arms. -- Part 2. The elusive ideal: the civilians. -- 5. Semiology and the city at war. -- 6. The anthropology of civilian life. -- Part III. Taboo, anxiety and fascination: the victims. -- 7. Refugees and the limitations of documentary. -- 8. Casualties and the nature of photographic evidence. -- 9. If not about Spain ... 1930s Britain and France. -- 10. Vietnam, the Falklands, the Gulf: photography in the age of the simulacral.

Summary:

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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ISBN:

0415130999
9780415130998

Subject:

Krieg
War photography History.
Photographie de guerre Histoire.
War photography
Fotografie
Kultur
Pressefotografie
Spanischer Bürgerkrieg
Oorlogsfotografie.
Oorlogen.
Massamedia.
Cultuurgeschiedenis.
Photojournalism History.
Frankreich
Großbritannien

Form/genre:

History

Holdings:

Location: Library main 192289
Call No.: ID TR820.6.B76; ID:97-B3383
Status: Available