Picturing Peace

Tom Allbeson is Senior Lecturer in Media History at the School of Journalism, Media and Culture at Cardiff University, UK. He is co-editor of the Journal of War and Culture Studies, author of Photography, Reconstruction and the Cultural History of the Postwar European City, and co-author of Conflicting Images: Histories of War Photography in the News (2024). His research concerns media history and visual culture in contemporary Europe and the US with specialisms in photojournalism and conflict, visual culture and reconstruction, collective memory in post-conflict societies, and urban history. Jolyon Mitchell is Professor of Communications, Arts and Religion at the University of Edinburgh, UK, and Director of the Centre for Theology and Public Issues (CTPI). His research and teaching focuses on religion, violence and peacebuilding with particular reference to the visual arts. He has published extensively on the uses of different media arts in promoting peace and inciting violence. Pippa Oldfield is Senior Lecturer in Photography at Teesside University, UK, and former Head of Programme at Impressions Gallery, Bradford. She is the author of Photography and War and has curated numerous exhibitions on the topic of conflict and its aftermath including Bringing the War Home: Photographic Responses to Recent Conflict in Iraq and Afghanistan and No Man’s Land: Women’s Photographic Viewpoints on the First World War.

List of Plates
List of Figures
Note on Contributors
Foreword, JP Singh (George Mason University, USA)
Series Editor’s Preface
Acknowledgements

Introduction, Tom Allbeson (University of Cardiff, UK) and Pippa Oldfield (Teesside University, UK)

Part One: Genealogies
1. Humanitarian Photography: From Mediating Suffering to Visualizing Peace, Roland Bleiker and Emma Hutchison (University of Queensland, Australia)
2. Photography, Civilians and the Polemics of Peace: A Historical Perspective, Heide Fehrenbach (Northern Illinois University, USA)
3. Peace Photography and the Temporality of the Aftermath, Frank Möller (University of Tampere, Finland)
4. Tragedy, Recognition and Photography: Affective Traditions of Witnessing, Jennifer Wallace (University of Cambridge, UK)

Part Two: Whose Photography, Whose Peace?
5. Re-framing or De-centering the White Gaze of Peace? Peace Photography, Colonial Durability and Opacity in Dialogue, Astrid Jamar (University of Antwerp, Belgium) and François Makanga (Independent, Belgium)
6. How (Not) to Picture Africa, Martina Bacigalupo in conversation with Sharon Sliwinski
7. Community and Participatory Photography as Peace Photography: Cases from Latin America, Tiffany Fairey (King’s College London, UK)
8. Journeys Towards Light, Newsha Tavakolian in conversation with Pippa Oldfield


Part Three: From the Archives: Protest Between Activism & Authoritarianism
9. Gender at the Peace Table: Photographic Visualizations of Peacemaking in the First World War, Pippa Oldfield (Teesside University, UK)
10. Peace and its Discontents: Right-Wing Visions of Peace in the Weimar Republic, J.J. Long (Durham University, UK)
11. Publishing for Peace: Newsworthiness, Authorship and Photobooks of the Vietnam Era, Tom Allbeson (Cardiff University, UK)
12. Countering Men’s Visions of Destruction with a Vision of Life: Greenham Common’s Ecofeminist Imaginaries of Peace, Mathilde Bertrand (Université Bordeaux Montaigne, France)


Part Four: Aftermaths and Futures
13. Visualizing the Scars of War: Sexual Trauma, Temporality and Post-conflict Photography, Wendy Kozol (Oberlin College, US)
14. The Images That Define Us: A Photo Elicitation Interview, Jacques Nkinzingabo in conversation with Tiffany Fairey
15. Photography, Peace and the Everyday, Paul Lowe (University of the Arts London, UK)

Bibliography
Index