Cruel Radiance Photography and Political Violence

Name: Cruel Radiance Photography and Political Violence
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ISBN: 9780226482521

ISBN-10: 0226482529

ISBN-13: 9780226482521

Edition: 2010

Authors: Susie Linfield

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In The 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 to see the 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…

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List price: $45.00
Copyright year: 2010
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 5/27/2011
Binding: E-Book
Pages: 344
Language: English