Caroline Brothers

War and Photography

A Cultural History

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book breaks new ground in claiming photo- graphs as valid documentary sources for the historian. Brothers applies her argument with special reference to French and British newspaper images of the Spanish Civil War.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 296
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Dezember 1996
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 239mm x 161mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 762g
• ISBN-13: 9780415130998
• ISBN-10: 0415130999
• Artikelnr.: 22244649

Autorenporträt

Caroline Brothers

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1: Photography, Theory, History
Part I: Propaganda and Myth
2: The Republican Militiamen
3: Insurgent Soldiers and Moors
4: Women-at-Arms
Part II: The Elusive Ideal
5: Semiology and the City at War
6: The Anthropology of Civilian Life
Part III: Taboo, Anxiety and Fascination
7: Refugees and the Limitations of Documentary
8: Casualties and the Nature of Photographic Evidence
Part IV: Spain and After
9: If Not About Spain ...
10: Vietnam, the Falklands, the Gulf