The cruel radiance
Subtitle: photography and political violence
By: Susie Linfield
Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Chicago
Language: eng
Number of pages: 321
ISBN-13: 9780226482507
Subjects: Political violence in mass media; Violence; Documentary photography; Press coverage; Photographic criticism
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Preface: The Black book; title: Polemics; title: A little history of photography criticism; or, Why do photography critics hate photography?; title: Photojournalism and human rights: the calamity of the Kodak; title: Places; title: Warsaw, Łódź, Auschwitz: in the waiting room of death; title: China: from Malraux's dignity to the Red Guards' shame; title: Sierra Leone: beyond the sorrow and the pity; title: Abu Ghraib and the jihad: the dance of civilizations; title: People; title: Robert Capa: the optimist; title: James Nachtwey: the catastrophist; title: Gilles Peress: the skeptic.