The violence of colonial photography / Daniel Foliard.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Foliard, Daniel, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

War photography--France--History.

War photography.

War photography--Great Britain--History.

Imperialism--Photography--19th century.

Imperialism.

Imperialism--Photography--20th century.

Imperialism--Propaganda.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (348 pages) : illustrations (black and white); digital file(s).

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Manchester, UK : Manchester University Press, 2022.

Language Note:

In English.

System Details:

data file

Biography/History:

Daniel Foliard is a Professor of Modern History at Université Paris Cité

Summary:

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 oppressors.

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on publisher-supplied metadata and e-publication viewed April 24, 2023.

Other Format:

Print version: Foliard, Daniel The Violence of Colonial Photography

ISBN:

9781526163301

1526163306

9781526163325

1526163322

OCLC:

1347058430