Picturing Atrocity: Photography in Crisis

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11/2011
PICTURING ATROCITY. Photography in Crisis. Ed. by Geoffrey Batchen, Mick Gildey et al. London 2011. 256 S. mit 73 (15 farb.) Abb., brosch.

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Ever since the landmark publication of Susan Sontag's "On Photography", it has been impossible to look at photographs, particularly those of violence and suffering, without questioning our role as photographic voyeur. "Picturing Atrocity" brings together essays from some of the foremost writers on photography today, including Rebecca Solnit, Alfredo Jaar, Ariella Azoulay, John Lucaites, Robert Hariman and Susan Meiselas, to offer close readings of images that reveal the realities behind the photographs, the subjects and the photographers

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