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Humanitarian photography : a history / edited by Heide Fehrenbach, Northern Illinois University, Davide Rodogno, Graduate Institute of Geneva.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Human rights in history.
- Human rights in history
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Photography--Social aspects--History.
- Photography.
- Documentary photography--History.
- Documentary photography.
- Humanitarian assistance--History.
- Humanitarian assistance.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (345 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2014.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- For well over a century, humanitarians and their organizations have used photographic imagery and the latest media technologies to raise public awareness and funds to alleviate human suffering. This volume examines the historical evolution of what we today call 'humanitarian photography' - the mobilization of photography in the service of humanitarian initiatives across state boundaries - and asks how we can account for the shift from the fitful and debated use of photography for humanitarian purposes in the late nineteenth century to our current situation in which photographers market themselves as 'humanitarian photographers'. This book is the first to investigate how humanitarian photography emerged and how it operated in diverse political, institutional, and social contexts, bringing together more than a dozen scholars working on the history of humanitarianism, international organizations and nongovernmental organizations, and visual culture in Africa, Asia, the Middle East, Europe, and the United States.
- Contents:
- Introduction: The morality of sight: humanitarian photography in history / Heide Fehrenbach and Davide Rodogno
- Picturing pain: evangelicals and the politics of pictorial humanitarianism in an imperial age / Heather Curtis
- Framing atrocity: photography and humanitarianism
- Christina Twomey
- The limits of exposure: atrocity photographs in the Congo Reform campaign / Kevin Grant
- Photography, visual culture, and the Armenian genocide / Peter Balakian
- Developing the humanitarian image in late 19th and early 20th century China / Caroline Reeves
- Photography, cinema, and the quest for influence: the international committee of the Red Cross in the wake of the first World War / Francesca Piana
- Children and other civilians: photography and the politics of humanitarian image-making / Heide Fehrenbach
- Sights of benevolence: UNRRA's recipients portrayed / Silvia Salvatici
- All the world loves a picture: the World Health Organization's visual politics, 1948-1973 / Thomas David and Davide Rodogno
- "A" as in Auschwitz, "B" as in Biafra: the Nigerian civil war, visual narratives of genocide, and the fragmented universalization of the Holocaust / Lasse Heerten
- Finding the right image: British development NGOs and the regulation of imagery / Henrietta Lidchi
- Dilemmas of ethical practice in the production of contemporary humanitarian photography / Sanna Nissinen.
- Notes:
- Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781316255643
- 1316255646
- 9781316236727
- 1316236722
- 9781316253748
- 1316253740
- 9781316249963
- 1316249964
- 9781316251850
- 1316251853
- 9781316248065
- 1316248062
- 9781316234839
- 1316234835
- 9781107587694
- 1107587697
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