War and photography : a cultural history / Caroline Brothers.

Auth: Reuters correspondent, Theoretical approach.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Brothers, Caroline.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: London ; New York : Routledge, 1997.
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Table of Contents:
  • 1. Photography, theory, history.
  • Part I. Propaganda and myth: the combatants.
  • 2. The republican militiamen.
  • 3. Insurgent soldiers and moors.
  • 4. Women-at-arms.
  • Part 2. The elusive ideal: the civilians.
  • 5. Semiology and the city at war.
  • 6. The anthropology of civilian life.
  • Part III. Taboo, anxiety and fascination: the victims.
  • 7. Refugees and the limitations of documentary.
  • 8. Casualties and the nature of photographic evidence.
  • 9. If not about Spain ... 1930s Britain and France.
  • 10. Vietnam, the Falklands, the Gulf: photography in the age of the simulacral.