The Violence of Colonial Photography
Seiten
2022
Manchester University Press (Verlag)
978-1-5261-6331-8 (ISBN)
Manchester University Press (Verlag)
978-1-5261-6331-8 (ISBN)
This book offers a new account of the development of conflict photography. It explores how the new technology of the camera was used in the British and French empires as a means of controlling subject populations, and how these populations found ways of turning the technology against their oppressors. -- .
SHORTLISTED FOR THE BRITISH ACADEMY BOOK PRIZE FOR GLOBAL CULTURAL UNDERSTANDING 2023
The late nineteenth century witnessed a rapid increase in colonial conflicts throughout the French and British empires. It was also the period in which the first mass-produced cameras became available. Colonial authorities were quick to recognise the power of this new technology, which they used to humiliate defeated opponents and project an image of supremacy across the world.
Drawing on a wealth of visual materials, from soldiers’ personal albums to the collections of press agencies and government archives, The violence of colonial photography offers a new account of how conflict photography developed in the decades before the First World War. It explores the ways the camera was used to impose order on subject populations in Africa and Asia and to generate propaganda for the public in Europe, where a visual economy of violence was rapidly taking shape.
At the same time, the book reveals how photographs could escape the intentions of their creators, offering a means for colonial subjects to push back against oppression. -- .
SHORTLISTED FOR THE BRITISH ACADEMY BOOK PRIZE FOR GLOBAL CULTURAL UNDERSTANDING 2023
The late nineteenth century witnessed a rapid increase in colonial conflicts throughout the French and British empires. It was also the period in which the first mass-produced cameras became available. Colonial authorities were quick to recognise the power of this new technology, which they used to humiliate defeated opponents and project an image of supremacy across the world.
Drawing on a wealth of visual materials, from soldiers’ personal albums to the collections of press agencies and government archives, The violence of colonial photography offers a new account of how conflict photography developed in the decades before the First World War. It explores the ways the camera was used to impose order on subject populations in Africa and Asia and to generate propaganda for the public in Europe, where a visual economy of violence was rapidly taking shape.
At the same time, the book reveals how photographs could escape the intentions of their creators, offering a means for colonial subjects to push back against oppression. -- .
Daniel Foliard is a Professor of Modern History at Université Paris Cité and author of Dislocating the Orient: British Maps and the Making of the Middle East, 1854–1921 -- .
Foreword by Kim A. Wagner
Introduction
1 Repulsion, erasure, and loss of contrast
2 Photography as power: force and counterforce
3 Depths of field: darkrooms and conflicts prior to the 1890s
4 Conflicts in the lens: from the 1890s to the First World War
5 The public and the private: regimes of visibility
6 Subversion, denunciation, and manipulation
7 The enemy’s body
8 Paper cemeteries
9 Invisible wars? Reflections of extra-European conflicts in France and Britain
Conclusion: ceci n’est pas une illustration
Index -- .
Erscheinungsdatum | 26.10.2022 |
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Zusatzinfo | 83 black & white illustrations, 4 graphs |
Verlagsort | Manchester |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 170 x 240 mm |
Gewicht | 816 g |
Themenwelt | Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Fotokunst |
Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918) | |
Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Wirtschaftsgeschichte | |
ISBN-10 | 1-5261-6331-4 / 1526163314 |
ISBN-13 | 978-1-5261-6331-8 / 9781526163318 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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