The Iconic Image of the Mushroom Cloud and the Cold War Nuclear Optic / Nancy K. Miller -- The Girl in the Photograph: The Visual Legacies of War / Barbie Zelizer -- Atrocity, the "As If," and Impending Death from the Khmer Rouge / Tom Junod -- The Falling Man -- Ordinary Atrocities / Marianne Hirsch, Leo Spitzer -- Street Photographs in Crisis: Cernauti, Romania, c. 1943 / Paul Lowe -- Picturing the Perpetrator / Hilary Roberts -- War Trophy Photographs: Proof or Pornography? / Darren Newbury -- Picturing an "Ordinary Atrocity": The Sharpeville Massacre -- Atrocity Askance / Geoffrey Batchen -- Looking Askance / Mark Durden -- Documentary Pictorial: Luc Delahaye's Taliban, 2001 / Ariella Azoulay -- The Execution Portrait / Fred Ritchin -- Toward a Hyperphotography -- The Afterlife of Photographs / Alfredo Jaar, David Levi Strauss -- Lament of the Images / Lorie Novak -- Photographic Interference.
Summary:
This title taps into the widespread interest in, and concern about, photographs of atrocity. The book contains a broad range of atrocity photographs from throughout history and around the world, as well as essays by well-known artists and photographers.
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