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A volatile picture : war and the political work of photography in Sri Lanka / Vindhya Buthpitiya.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Buthpitiya, Vindhya, Author.
- Series:
- Global South Asia
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Photography--Political aspects--Sri Lanka.
- Photography.
- Photography--Social aspects--Sri Lanka.
- War photography--Sri Lanka.
- War photography.
- Tamil (Indic people)--Sri Lanka--Politics and government.
- Tamil (Indic people).
- Sri Lanka--History--Civil War, 1983-2009--Photography.
- Sri Lanka.
- Sri Lanka--Politics and government.
- Physical Description:
- pages cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Seattle : University of Washington Press, [2026]
- Summary:
- "Drawing on lived experience, extended field work, and multiple archives, Vindhya Buthpitiya examines the everyday photographic strategies of militants, amateur photographers, professional artists, and citizens to show how photography has become entangled with the Tamil political imagination. Grounded in the understudied history of Tamil photographic tradition, A Volatile Picture expands our understanding of "conflict photography" beyond newspapers and documentaries to include everyday photographs through which Tamil people continue to record, articulate, and visualize their ongoing demand for political self-determination"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Home(land)
- The Jaffna studio
- Photography as statecraft and warcraft
- Naveena camera
- Picturing the disappeared
- Atrocity nation/state amnesia
- Imagi(ni)ng Eelam.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780295754437
- 0295754435
- 9780295754444
- 0295754443
- OCLC:
- 1543510641
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