[FoME] WG: [IAMCR] New Book: Picturing Afghanistan: The Photography of Foreign Conflict (Paul Verschueren)

[Wolf Ludwig]

Just FYI - with regards,
Wolf

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Jan Servaes wrote Sun, 29 Jan 2012 11:20
>New Book: Picturing Afghanistan: The Photography of Foreign Conflict (Paul
>Verschueren)
>
>This is an in-depth account of the Euro-American visualization of the
>conflict in Afghanistan. Comparing images in public affairs, psychological
>warfare, journalism and the photo-book, the author argues that there are no
>strong boundaries between photography in war and photography about war. He
>shows how and when the media have adopted, extended and counter-framed the
>public affairs discourse of militarism and humanitarianism, and how and
>when public affairs rely on the aesthetic codes of photojournalism. Instead
>of enforcing a unified interpretation, the author considers photography’s
>ambiguous and contradictory aspects. It is argued that, even within the
>conventionalized genre of photojournalism, photographs of conflict do not
>merely promote unity and social cohesion but express anxieties associated
>with the breakdown of imagined communities.
>
>Contents: Preface. Acknowledgments. INTRODUCTION. Photographs and Frames.
>Photography and Theory. The Concept of the Frame. Using Social Semiotics
>for Frame Analysis. The Photojournalistic Register and Genre. Visual and
>Textual Frames. Two Examples. Example 1: The Spirit of Berlin. Example 2:
>The Kabul-Kandahar Road. Notes. OFFICIAL U.S. VIEWS. Photography and
>Propaganda. A Soldier’s Story. Paper Bullets. The White Man’s Burden.
>Photo-Texts In/About War. Notes. WESTERN EUROPEAN PRESS VIEWS. Photography
>and the News. Initial Responses Across the Atlantic. The Framing of
>Combatants and Technologies. Visualizing Leadership in Wartime. Home Fronts
>in a Globalized World. Refugees: Threatened and Dangerous. The Civilian
>Body as Battleground. Photography and Info-Graphics. Invisible Afghanistan.
>Notes. The PHOTO-BOOK. Photography and the Documentary Tradition. War as
>Quest. Dystopian Landscapes. The Photo Studio as Heterotopia. The Otherness
>of War. Notes. Conclusion. References. List of Illustrations. Author Index.
>Subject Index.
>
>More info: *
>http://www.hamptonpress.com/Merchant2/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Product_Code=978-1-61289-038-8
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>Jan Servaes (PhD)
>UNESCO Chair in Communication for Sustainable Social Change
>Director, SBS Center 'Communication for Sustainable Social Change' (CSSC)
>University of Massachusetts
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>Tel: +1 413 545 5773/4314
>Fax: +1 413 545 6399
>j <csschange at gmail.com>servaes at comm.umass.edu
>www.csschange.org
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