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BL
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625332
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dltt
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Linfield, Susie
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| Title & Author
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The cruel radiance : : photography and political violence /\ Susie Linfield
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1 online resource (xviii, 321 pages) :: illustrations ;; cm
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| ISBN
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9780226482521 (electronic bk.)
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: 0226482529 (electronic bk.)
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9780226482507
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0226482502
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| Notes
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Electronic resource
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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| Contents
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Preface: The Black book -- Part 1: Polemics. A little history of photography criticism; or, Why do photography critics hate photography? ; Photojournalism and human rights: the calamity of the Kodak -- Part 2: Places. Warsaw, Łódź, Auschwitz: in the waiting room of death ; China: from Malraux's dignity to the Red Guards' shame ; Sierra Leone: beyond the sorrow and the pity ; Abu Ghraib and the jihad: the dance of civilizations -- Part 3: People. Robert Capa: the optimist ; James Nachtwey: the catastrophist ; Gilles Peress: the skeptic
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| Abstract
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Susie Linfield addresses the issue of whether photographs depicting past scenes of violence & cruelty are voyeuristic, arguing that if we do not look & understand that we are seeing at people, rather than depersonalised acts of inhumanity, our hopes of curbing political violence today are probably limited
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Documentary photography
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Political violence in mass media
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Violence-- Press coverage
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Photographic criticism
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| Dewey Classification
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070.4/9
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TR820.5.L55 2010eb
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