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Aerial aftermaths : wartime from above / Caren Kaplan.
LIBRA TA593.2 .K375 2018
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Kaplan, Caren, 1955- author.
- Series:
- Next wave (Duke University Press)
- Next wave : new directions in women's studies
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Photographic surveying--History.
- Photographic surveying.
- Aerial photography--History.
- Aerial photography.
- War photography--History.
- War photography.
- Photography, Military.
- History.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xiv, 298 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Durham : Duke University Press, 2018.
- Summary:
- From the first vistas provided by flight in balloons in the eighteenth century to the most recent sensing operations performed by military drones, the history of aerial imagery has marked the transformation of how people perceived their world, better understood their past, and imagined their future. In Aerial Aftermaths Caren Kaplan traces this cultural history, showing how aerial views operate as a form of world-making tied to the times and places of war. Kaplan's investigation of the aerial arts of war-painting, photography, and digital imaging-range from England's surveys of Scotland following the defeat of the 1746 Jacobite rebellion and early twentieth-century photographic mapping of Iraq to images taken in the immediate aftermath of 9/11. Throughout, Kaplan foregrounds aerial imagery's importance to modern visual culture and its ability to enforce colonial power, demonstrating both the destructive force and the potential for political connection that come with viewing from above.
- Contents:
- Introduction: Aerial aftermaths
- Surveying wartime aftermaths: the first military survey of Scotland
- Balloon geography: the emotion of motion in aerostatic wartime
- La nature, coup d'oeil: "seeing all" in early panoramas
- Mapping "Mesopotamia": aerial photography in early twentieth-century Iraq
- The politics of the sensible: aerial photography's wartime aftermaths
- Afterword: Sensing distance.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Kaplan, Caren, 1955- Aerial aftermaths.
- ISBN:
- 9780822370086
- 0822370085
- 9780822370178
- 0822370174
- OCLC:
- 1002419106
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