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Humanitarian photography : a history / edited by Heide Fehrenbach, Northern Illinois University, Davide Rodogno, Graduate Institute of Geneva.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextLanguage: English Series: Publisher: New York : Cambridge University Press, 2016Description: xx, 345 pages illustrations 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781107064706
  • 1107064708
  • 9781107639713
  • 1107639719
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 779.936126 23
Contents:
Introduction: The morality of sight: humanitarian photography in history / Heide Fehrenbach and Davide Rodogno -- Picturing pain: evangelicals and the politics of pictorial humanitarianism in an imperial age / Heather D. Curtis -- Framing atrocity: photography and humanitarianism -- Christina Twomey -- The limits of exposure: atrocity photographs in the Congo Reform campaign / Kevin Grant -- Photography, visual culture, and the Armenian genocide / Peter Balakian -- Developing the humanitarian image in late nineteenth and early twentieth century China / Caroline Reeves -- Photography, cinema, and the quest for influence: the International Committee of the Red Cross in the wake of the First World War / Francesca Piana -- Children and other civilians: photography and the politics of humanitarian image-making / Heide Fehrenbach -- Sights of benevolence: UNRRA's recipients portrayed / Silvia Salvatici -- All the world loves a picture: the World Health Organization's visual politics, 1948-1973 / Davide Rodogno and Thomas David -- "A" as in Auschwitz, "B" as in Biafra: the Nigerian civil war, visual narratives of genocide, and the fragmented universalization of the Holocaust / Lasse Heerten -- Finding the right image: British development NGOs and the regulation of imagery / Henrietta Lidchi -- Dilemmas of ethical practice in the production of contemporary humanitarian photography / Sanna Nissinen.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 323-337) and index.

Introduction: The morality of sight: humanitarian photography in history / Heide Fehrenbach and Davide Rodogno -- Picturing pain: evangelicals and the politics of pictorial humanitarianism in an imperial age / Heather D. Curtis -- Framing atrocity: photography and humanitarianism -- Christina Twomey -- The limits of exposure: atrocity photographs in the Congo Reform campaign / Kevin Grant -- Photography, visual culture, and the Armenian genocide / Peter Balakian -- Developing the humanitarian image in late nineteenth and early twentieth century China / Caroline Reeves -- Photography, cinema, and the quest for influence: the International Committee of the Red Cross in the wake of the First World War / Francesca Piana -- Children and other civilians: photography and the politics of humanitarian image-making / Heide Fehrenbach -- Sights of benevolence: UNRRA's recipients portrayed / Silvia Salvatici -- All the world loves a picture: the World Health Organization's visual politics, 1948-1973 / Davide Rodogno and Thomas David -- "A" as in Auschwitz, "B" as in Biafra: the Nigerian civil war, visual narratives of genocide, and the fragmented universalization of the Holocaust / Lasse Heerten -- Finding the right image: British development NGOs and the regulation of imagery / Henrietta Lidchi -- Dilemmas of ethical practice in the production of contemporary humanitarian photography / Sanna Nissinen.