Main entry:

Tucker, Anne.

Title & Author:

War/photography : images of armed conflict and its aftermath / Anne Wilkes Tucker and Will Michels with Natalie Zelt ; With contributions by Jeffrey Wm. Hunt [and others].

Publication:

Houston : Museum of Fine Arts, Houston ; New Haven : Distributed by Yale University Press, ©2012.

Description:

606 pages : chiefly illustrations (some color) ; 33 cm

Notes:
"This catalogue was published to coincide with the exhibition WAR/PHOTOGRAPHY: Images of Armed Conflict and Its Aftermath, organized by the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, November 11, 2012-February 3, 2013"--Title page verso.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
War photographers: a special breed? / Hilary Roberts -- Part 1: Seeing eye to eye: the changing ways and means by which photographers' images have reached the public eye / Natalie Zelt ; Media coverage and dissemination ; The advent of war ; Recruitment and embarkation ; Training ; The "terrible reality" of the first living-room wars / John Stauffer. -- Part 2: Daily routine ; Reconnaissance, resistance, and sabotage ; Patrol and troop movement ; The wait ; German snapshots from World War I: Personal pictures, political implications / Bodo Von Dewitz. -- Part 3: The fight ; Rescue ; Aftermath: Shell shock, exhaustion ; Death ; Grief and battlefield burials and memorials ; Destruction of property ; Executions ; Iwo Jima ; Perspectives on images of armed conflict-an interview with Hilary Roberts and Jeffrey Wm Hunt. -- Part 4: Leisure time ; Support ; Prisoners of war and interrogations ; Medicine: Wartime medicine ; Medicine subsequent to war ; Faith. -- Part 5: Portraits of war: a photographer's perspective / Will Michels ; Portraits ; Photographic essays ; Civilians: Civilian daily life ; Civilian dead and wounded ; Civilian grief ; Refugees ; Children ; Soldier photography: visualizing the war in Iraq / Liam Kennedy. -- Part 6: War's end: victory and defeat ; Retribution ; Homecoming ; Memorials ; Remembrance.

Summary:

"More than 480 images illustrate the relationship between photography and war, showing the experience of armed conflict through the eyes of photographers across two centuries and six continents"-- Provided by publisher.

Resources:
Table of contents
Book review (H-Net)

ISBN:

9780300177381 (hardcover)
0300177380 (hardcover)

Subject:

War photography.
War.
Armed Conflicts
Photographie de guerre.
Guerre.
war photography.
Krieg
Fotografie
Kriegsberichterstattung

Form/genre:

Exhibition.
Pictorial works. MoU
exhibition catalogs.
illustrated books.
Exhibition catalogs
Illustrated works
Catalogues d'exposition.
Ouvrages illustrés.

Added entries:

Michels, Will.
Zelt, Natalie.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 281174
Call No.: BIB 218300
Status: Available