Main entry:

Foliard, Daniel, author. aut

Title & Author:

The violence of colonial photography / Daniel Foliard.

Edition:

First English-language edition.

Publication:

Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2022.
©2020

Description:

xvii, 348 pages : illustrations (black and white), charts ; 24 cm

Notes:
"First published by Éditions La Découverte, 2020."--Title page verso.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 277-334) and index.
Introduction -- 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 -- Conclusion: Ceci n'est pas une illustration.
Translated from the French.

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.

ISBN:

1526163314 (paperback)
9781526163318 (paperback)
(ePub ebook)
9781526163301
(PDF ebook)
9781526163325

Subject:

War photography.
Colonies Pictorial works.
War.
Photography in historiography.
War photography France History.
War photography Great Britain History.
Photographie de guerre.
Colonies Ouvrages illustrés.
Guerre.
Photographie en historiographie.
Photographie de guerre France Histoire.
Photographie de guerre Grande-Bretagne Histoire.
war photography.
Colonies
France
Great Britain

Form/genre:

Pictorial works
History
Informational works.
Documents d'information.

Added entries:

Foliard, Daniel. Combattre, punir, photographier.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 318539
Call No.: 318539
Copy: 1
Status: Available