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| fixed length control field |
01370cam a2200181 i 4500 |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER |
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| ISBN |
9780226482507 |
| 082 00 - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER |
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| Classification number |
070.49 |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--AUTHOR NAME |
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| Personal name |
Linfield, Susie |
| 245 14 - TITLE STATEMENT |
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| Title |
The cruel radiance : [electronic resource] photography and political violence / |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION |
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| Number of Pages |
one online resource, 341 pages : |
| Other physical details |
illustrations ; |
| 505 0# - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE |
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| Formatted contents note |
Preface: The Black book -- Polemics -- A little history of photography criticism; or, Why do photography critics hate photography? -- Photojournalism and human rights: the calamity of the Kodak -- 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 -- People -- Robert Capa: the optimist -- James Nachtwey: the catastrophist -- Gilles Peress: the skeptic |
| 520 8# - SUMMARY, ETC. |
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| Summary, etc |
Susie Linfield addresses the issue of whether photographs depicting past scenes of violence and cruelty are voyeuristic, arguing that if we do not look and understand that we are seeing at people, rather than depersonalised acts of inhumanity, our hopes of curbing political violence today are probably limited |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical Term |
Documentary photography |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical Term |
Political violence in mass media |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical Term |
Violence-- Press coverage |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical Term |
Photographic criticism |
| 942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA) |
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| Koha item type |
Electronic Books |
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