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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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| Format: | Électronique eBook |
| Langue: | Inglés |
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Manchester :
Manchester University Press,
2022.
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| Édition: | First English-language edition. |
| Collection: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Accès en ligne: | Texto completo |
Table des matières:
- 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