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The Importance and Consequences of War Photography [PDF]

open access: yesCultural Intertexts, 2022
War photographs speak of war through stories. Stories of people they depict, usually during the most painful situations of their lives. Thanks to these photographs, we are able to learn about the suffering of others.
Eva JONISOVÁ
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War Museums and Photography

open access: yesMuseum & Society, 2012
The use of photographs in museums can reveal how the perceived transparency of photography and the authority of the museum interact with the subjectivity and the political construction of historical narratives.
Theopisti Stylianou-Lambert   +1 more
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War, Photography, Business: New Critical Histories [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of War and Culture Studies, 2016
This article offers a critique of conventional histories of war photography, which have tended to focus on the biographies of individual renowned photojournalists or particular aesthetically striking images of conflict. We argue the need for an expanded conception of war photography which encompasses not only reportage, but numerous other uses in ...
Pippa Oldfield, Tom Allbeson
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Historical Review of Iran War Photography during (1980-1988) with an Emphasis on Professional, Independent, and Military Photographers [PDF]

open access: yesپیکره, 2023
Problem Definition: The goals and methods of producing the work of documentary photographers, in terms of the influences they receive from each historical period, are formed at the same time as recording the work; However, what they have shown is now a ...
Seyed Saeid Mir Mohammadi   +1 more
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L’image de guerre : un dispositif, une fiction

open access: yesFocales, 2022
War photography, since its beginnings, has been orchestrated for military needs, or by the media. After being a weapon of war, it then became a testimony. Never ceasing to be an idealized representation of the facts, war photography is both technical and
Sandrine Ferret
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Souvenir Photography: Documenting a Foreign Culture for the Western Audience

open access: yesLinguaculture, 2022
Photographer Felice Beato (1832-1909) was a pioneer of souvenir photography, a genre of photography that depicted foreign cultures for an unfamiliar audience.
Eduard-Claudiu Gross
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Naveena Camera

open access: yesDastavezi, 2022
This visual essay explores the daily life and rhythms of a photography studio in Jaffna in northern Sri Lanka. Here, I reflect on the enduring entanglements of war and everyday image-making practices in the postwar period.
Vindhya Buthpitiya
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The Ways in Which I Never Thought About My Great-Grandfather: An Essay on the Potentials of Photography as a Historical Document [PDF]

open access: yesТокови историје, 2020
This paper is on the trail of answering the theoretical question of the potential of photography as a historical source. The paper does not aim for a historical reconstruction in the classical sense but is an attempt to show the reach of this visual ...
Filip Mitričević
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Twelve Insights into the Afghanistan War through the Photographs from the Basetrack Project: Rita Leistner’s iProbes and Marshall McLuhan’s Theory of Media

open access: yesArts, 2021
This article presents the iProbe concept developed by the Canadian photographer Rita Leistner. This analytical tool is one of the ways to present the image of modern warfare that emerges from messages in social media and photographs taken using ...
Kalina Kukielko-Rogozinska
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War Photography: Díaz & Spencer’s coverage of the War of the Pacific (1879-1883)

open access: yesFotocinema: Revista Científica de Cine y Fotografía, 2021
In the study of 19th-century Latin American photography, the photographic capture of war and military operations has implicitly been equated with the eye of national states, understanding that photographers would want to show a positive portrayal of the ...
Candela Marini
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