Janina Struk

Private Pictures (eBook, ePUB)

Soldiers' Inside View of War

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Snapshots taken by American soldiers of Iraqi prisoners stripped naked, humiliated and tortured, shocked the worldin 2004. But, as Private Pictures reveals, far from this beinga phenomenon of the digital and Internet age, soldiers havebeen taking photographs of war for more than 100 years.

Janina Struk has traced thousands of soldiers' images and follows this unacknowledged genre from the Boer Warto the twenty-first-century wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

In this fascinating book she tells stories that reveal how soldiers' pictures were used by the British press to thwart official censorship during the First World War as well as the controversies caused by pictures taken by German soldiers of Nazi crimes during the Second World War. She tells of how British soldiers faced a court martial accused of taking cruel images in Iraq, and how former Israeli soldiers are exhibiting their own snapshots taken in the Occupied Palestinian Territories to raise awareness of the corruption of occupation.

Private Pictures discusses the significance of these and other images and asks what effect a wider appreciation of soldiers' pictures might have on the popular perception of war, and importantly, on war photography.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: I.B.Tauris
• Seitenzahl: 232
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. September 2011
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780857730190
• Artikelnr.: 39142135

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