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24.0 x 17.0cms 212pp, b/w illusts, very good+ paperback & cover This book shows that soldiers have been taking war photographs for more than 100 years. It show how the British press used their pictures to thwart official censorship during WWI and German soldiers documented the Nazi crimes during WW2 etc etc. Seller Inventory # 176762
Bibliographic Details
Title: Private Pictures: Soldiers' Inside Views Of ...
Publisher: L B Tauris, New York 2011
Publication Date: 2011
Binding: Soft cover
About this title
Snapshots taken by American soldiers of Iraqi prisoners stripped naked, humiliated and tortured shocked the world in 2004 but, as this remarkable book relates, soldiers have taken photographs of the gruesome or sociable, shocking or mundane aspects of war for more than 100 years. Now, with the twenty-first century shift to simple digital photography and internet communications, a glut of highly disturbing images -- videos and stills -- is being posted on the inernet by western forces in Iraq and Afghanistan, with alarming results. Private Pictures traces this unacknowledged genre of photography from the origins of popular photography in the Boer War through the two World Wars, to the digital age. It discusses how the images have been used and it asks: what effect might the wider appreciation of soldiers' pictures have on the popular perception of war?
Janina Struk is a freelance writer, photographer and lecturer and author of Photographing the Holocaust: Interpretation of the Evidence (I.B.Tauris).
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