War and Photography
eBook - ePub

War and Photography

A Cultural History

  1. 296 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

War and Photography

A Cultural History

About this book

Drawing on the work of Barthes, Eco, Foucault, Baudrillard, Burgin and Tagg, and on the historians of mentalities, War and Photography presents a theoretical approach to the understanding of press photography in its historical and contemporary context.
Brothers applies her argument with special reference to French and British newspaper images of the Spanish Civil War, a selection of which is presented in the book. Rejecting analyses based upon the content of the images alone, she argues that photographic meaning is largely predetermined by its institutional and cultural context. Acting as witnesses despite themselves, photographs convey a wealth of information not about any objective reality, but about the collective attitudes and beliefs particular to the culture in which they operate.

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Information

Publisher
Routledge
Year
2013
Print ISBN
9780415130998
eBook ISBN
9781135035297
Edition
1
Topic
History
Index
History

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Halftitle
  3. Title
  4. Copyright
  5. Dedication
  6. Contents
  7. List of plates
  8. Preface and acknowledgements
  9. Introduction
  10. 1 Photography, Theory, History
  11. Part I Propaganda and myth: the combatants
  12. Part II The elusive ideal: the civilians
  13. Part III Taboo, anxiety and fascination: the victims
  14. Part IV Spain and after
  15. Notes
  16. Bibliography
  17. Index