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The cruel radiance : photography and political violence / Susie Linfield.
Fine Arts Library TR820.5 .L55 2010
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Linfield, Susie.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Documentary photography.
- Political violence in mass media.
- Violence--Press coverage.
- Violence.
- Photographic criticism.
- Physical Description:
- xviii, 321 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2010.
- Contents:
- Preface: The Black book
- Polemics. A little history of photography criticism; or, Why do photography critics hate photography?
- Photojournalism and human rights: the calamity of the Kodak
- Places. Warsaw, Loda, Auschwitz: in the waiting room of death
- China: from Malraux's dignity to the Red Guards' shame
- Sierra Leone: beyond the sorrow and the pity
- Abu Ghraib and the jihad: the dance of civilizations
- People. Robert Capa: the optimist
- James Nachtwey: the catastrophist
- Gilles Peress: the skeptic.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780226482507
- 0226482502
- OCLC:
- 587198954
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