Picturing Atrocity: Photography in Crisis

Synopsis

This Title Taps Into The Widespread Interest In, And Concern About, Photographs Of Atrocity. The Book Contains A Broad Range Of Atrocity Photographs From Throughout History And Around The World, As Well As Essays By Well-known Artists And Photographers. The Iconic Image Of The Mushroom Cloud And The Cold War Nuclear Optic / Nancy K. Miller -- The Girl In The Photograph: The Visual Legacies Of War / Barbie Zelizer -- Atrocity, The As If, And Impending Death From The Khmer Rouge / Tom Junod -- The Falling Man -- Ordinary Atrocities / Marianne Hirsch, Leo Spitzer -- Street Photographs In Crisis: Cernauti, Romania, C. 1943 / Paul Lowe -- Picturing The Perpetrator / Hilary Roberts -- War Trophy Photographs: Proof Or Pornography? / Darren Newbury -- Picturing An Ordinary Atrocity: The Sharpeville Massacre -- Atrocity Askance / Geoffrey Batchen -- Looking Askance / Mark Durden -- Documentary Pictorial: Luc Delahaye's Taliban, 2001 / Ariella Azoulay -- The Execution Portrait / Fred Ritchin -- Toward A Hyperphotography -- The Afterlife Of Photographs / Alfredo Jaar, David Levi Strauss -- Lament Of The Images / Lorie Novak -- Photographic Interference. Edited By Geoffrey Batchen, Mick Gidley, Nancy K. Miller ; Jay Prosser, Principal Editor. Includes Bibliographical References.