PHOTOGRAPHY AND WAR

An accessible introduction to photography's perhaps most contested, complex and emotive subject, war.There are countless books on wa r photography, most of these focusing on dramatic images made by photojournalists in combat zones. Photography and War instead propo ses a radically expanded notion of war photography, one that encompasses a far broader terrain of geographies, chronologies, practic es and viewpoints. Pippa Oldfied considers photography's fundamental role in military reconnaissance, propaganda and protest, exposu re of wa...[Read more]