Janina Struk

Private Pictures

Soldiers' Inside View of War

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Snapshots taken by American soldiers of Iraqi prisoners stripped naked, humiliated and tortured shocked the world in 2004 and more have followed from the conflict in Afghanistan, but whether the public have been horrified by the soldiers' conduct or the fact they have taken pictures has not been clear

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Academic
• Seitenzahl: 230
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. September 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 242mm x 174mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 561g
• ISBN-13: 9781848854437
• ISBN-10: 1848854439
• Artikelnr.: 29985852

Autorenporträt

Janina Struk is a freelance photographer and writer, and author of the highly acclaimed 'Photographing the Holocaust', also published by I.B. Tauris.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations Preface Chapter One: OUTRAGE AT ABU GHRAIBSOUVENIRS
FROM IRAQUNCOVERING THE EVIDENCETHE GLUT OF PICTURESWHAT DID THE PICTURES
MEAN?SUPPRESSION OF THE EVIDENCEChapter Two: LEARNING TO PHOTOGRAPH WARWILD
IMAGININGA SOLDIER'S CAMERAARMY OF SNAPSHOOTERSTHE DISAPPOINTMENT OF
PHOTOGRAPHYPHOTOGRAPHY ON THE HOME FRONTSNAPSHOTS FROM HOME CHAPTER THREE:
TELLING TALES A SAILOR'S PHOTO ALBUMTOURISTS IN UNIFORMFRAGMENTS OF
WARTHOSE WERE THE DAYSCHAPTER FOUR: PHOTOGRAPHS AS RESISTANCE DANGEROUS
OCCUPATIONARMED WITH CAMERASA PICTURE AT WARRECOVERED MEMORIESChapter Five:
PICTURES HAUNT A NATIONA VISIT TO THE ARCHIVESTHE MYTH OF THE PASTSCARS OF
A GENERATIONTHE STORIES THEY TELLWHAT THE PICTURES SHOWRESEALING THE
PAST.Chapter Six: INADMISSABLE EVIDENCE"BRITAIN'S ABU GHRAIB"INCRIMINATING
EVIDENCETHE MIRROR'S GREAT SCOOPCRIMES OF WARChapter Seven: BREAKING THE
SILENCE THE BANALITY OF PICTURESSPREADING THE WORD"OUR OWN ABU
GHRAIB"Chapter Eight: THE INSIDE VIEW OF WARA PARTICULAR KIND OF TRUTHIN
SEARCH OF THE REAL THINGHARDCORE WARNOGRAPHYMOVIES THAT STAR
THEMREINVENTING THE REALNotesIndex