Picturing Atrocity: Photography in Crisis by Nancy K. Miller, Mick Gidley, Jay Prosser, Geoffrey Batchen

Picturing Atrocity: Photography in Crisis

Nancy K. Miller, Mick Gidley, Jay Prosser, Geoffrey Batchen

320 pages first pub 2012 (editions)

nonfiction challenging informative slow-paced

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Ever since the landmark publication of Susan Sontag’s On Photography, it has been impossible to look at photographs, particularly those of violence and suffering, without questioning our role as photographic voyeur. Are we desensitized by the prol...

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