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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher
Univ of Chicago Pr
Publication date
May 1, 2012
Pages
321
Binding
Paperback
Edition
Reprint
Book category
Adult Non-Fiction
ISBN-13
9780226482514
ISBN-10
0226482510
Dimensions
1 by 6 by 9 in.
Weight
1.15 lbs.
Original list price
$20.00
Other format details
university press
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Civil Imagination | Regarding the Pain of Others | The Civil Contract of Photography | Seeing Through Race | Picturing Atrocity | Bending the Frame | On Photography | Camera Lucida | The Burden of Representation
Summaries and Reviews
Amazon.com description: Product Description:
In The Cruel Radiance, Susie Linfield challenges the idea that photographs of political violence exploit their subjects and pander to the voyeuristic tendencies of their viewers. Instead she argues passionately that looking at such imagesâand learning to see the people in themâis an ethically and politically necessary act that connects us to our modern history of violence and probes the human capacity for cruelty. Grappling with critics from Walter Benjamin and Bertolt Brecht to Susan Sontag and the postmodernsâand analyzing photographs from such events as the Holocaust, Chinaâs Cultural Revolution, and recent terrorist actsâLinfield explores the complex connection between photojournalism and the rise of human rights ideals. In the bookâs concluding section, she examines the indispensable work of Robert Capa, James Nachtwey, and Gilles Peress and asks how photography should respond to the increasingly nihilistic trajectory of modern warfare.
A bracing and unsettling book, The Cruel Radiance convincingly demonstrates that if we hope to alleviate political violence, we must first truly understand itâand to do that, we must begin to look.
Editions
Hardcover
With Anita Ganeri |
from Evans Brothers Ltd (August 1, 1996); titled "From Reed Pen to Word Processor"
9780237515164 | details & prices | List price $19.95
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This edition also contains From Reed Pen to Word Processor
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Paperback
The price comparison is for this edition
Reprint edition from Univ of Chicago Pr (May 1, 2012)
9780226482514 | details & prices | 321 pages | 6.00 × 9.00 × 1.00 in. | 1.15 lbs | List price $20.00
About: In The Cruel Radiance, Susie Linfield challenges the idea that photographs of political violence exploit their subjects and pander to the voyeuristic tendencies of their viewers.
About: In The Cruel Radiance, Susie Linfield challenges the idea that photographs of political violence exploit their subjects and pander to the voyeuristic tendencies of their viewers.
With Walt Whitman, Jerome Loving |
from Oxford Univ Pr (May 1, 1990); titled "Leaves of Grass"
9780192826756 | details & prices | 4.75 × 7.25 × 0.75 in. | 0.55 lbs | List price $5.95
This edition also contains Leaves of Grass
About: Presents Whitman's classic collection celebrating himself and the American experience
This edition also contains Leaves of Grass
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