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The violence of colonial photography / Daniel Foliard.

Summary:

"The late nineteenth century saw a rapid increase in colonial conflicts throughout the French and British empires. It was also the period in which the camera began to be widely available. Colonial authorities were quick to recognise the power of this new technology, which they used to humiliate defeated opponents and to project an image of supremacy across the world. Drawing on a wealth of visual materials, from soldiers' personal albums to the collections of press agencies and government archives, this book offers a new account of how conflict photography developed in the decades leading up to the First World War. It explores the various ways in which the camera was used to impose order on subject populations in Africa and Asia and to generate propaganda for the public in Europe, where a visual economy of violence was rapidly taking shape."--Publisher's website.

Record details

ISBN: 1526163314
ISBN: 9781526163318
Physical Description: xvii, 348 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 24 cm.
Edition: First English-language edition.
Publisher: Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2022.
Copyright: ℗♭2020.

Content descriptions

General Note:	"First published by ©ditions La D©♭couverte, 2020."--Title page verso.
Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 325-334) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	Repulsion, erasure, and loss of contrast -- Photography as power : force and counterforce -- Depths of field : darkrooms and conflicts prior to the 1890s -- Conflicts in the lens : from the 1890s to the first world war -- The public and the private : regimes of visibility -- Subversion, denunciation, and manipulation -- The enemy's body -- Paper cemeteries -- Invisible wars? reflections of extra-European conflicts in France and Britain.
Language Note:	Translated from the French.