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The violence of colonial photography /

This book offers a new account of the development of conflict photography. It explores how the new technology of the camera was used in the British and French empires as a means of controlling subject populations, and how these populations found ways of turning the technology against their oppressor...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Foliard, Daniel (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2022.
Edición:First English-language edition.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Front Matter
  • Contents
  • List of figures
  • Foreword
  • Acknowledgements
  • Note on translation
  • Introduction
  • Repulsion, erasure, and loss of contrast
  • Photography as power: force and counterforce
  • Depths of field: darkrooms and conflicts prior to the 1890s
  • Conflicts in the lens: from the 1890s to the First World War
  • The public and the private: regimes of visibility
  • Subversion, denunciation, and manipulation
  • The enemy's body
  • Paper cemeteries
  • Invisible wars? Reflections of extra-European conflicts in France and Britain
  • Conclusion: ceci n'est pas une illustration
  • Notes
  • Selected bibliography
  • Index