Cruel Radiance Photography and Political Violence

Name: Cruel Radiance Photography and Political Violence
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ISBN: 9780226482514

ISBN-10: 0226482510

ISBN-13: 9780226482514

Edition: 2012

Authors: Susie Linfield

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InThe Cruel Radiance, Susie Linfield challenges the idea that photographs of political violence exploit their subjects and pander to the voyeuristic tendencies of their viewers. Instead she argues passionately that looking at such images—and learning toseethe people in them—is an ethically and politically necessary act that connects us to our modern history of violence and probes the human capacity for cruelty. Grappling with critics from Walter Benjamin and Bertolt Brecht to Susan Sontag and the postmoderns—and analyzing photographs from such events as the Holocaust, China’s Cultural Revolution, and recent terrorist acts—Linfield explores the complex connection between photojournalism and…

Book details

List price: $20.00
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 4/15/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 344
Size: 5.98" wide x 9.02" long x 0.71" tall
Weight: 1.144
Language: English



List of Figures


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, Lodz, 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


Acknowledgments


Notes


Bibliography


Index