Humanitarian photography : a history / Heide Fehrenbach, Davide Rodogno.
Material type:
TextSeries: Human rights in historyPublication details: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2015.ISBN: - 9781107064706 (hbk.)
- 1107064708 (hbk.)
- 770.9 FEH
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
For well over a century, humanitarians and their organizations have used photographic imagery and the latest media technologies to raise public awareness and funds to alleviate human suffering. This volume examines the historical evolution of what we today call 'humanitarian photography' - the mobilization of photography in the service of humanitarian initiatives across state boundaries - and asks how we can account for the shift from the fitful and debated use of photography for humanitarian purposes in the late nineteenth century to our current situation in which photographers market themselves as 'humanitarian photographers'. This book investigates how humanitarian photography emerged and how it operated in diverse political, institutional, and social contexts, bringing together more than a dozen scholars working on the history of humanitarianism, international organizations and nongovernmental organizations, and visual culture in Africa, Asia, the Middle East, Europe, and the United States.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents provided by Syndetics
- Introduction. The morality of sight: humanitarian photography in history
- 1 Picturing pain: evangelicals and the politics of pictorial humanitarianism in an imperial age
- 2 Framing atrocity: photography and humanitarianism
- 3 The limits of exposure: atrocity photographs in the Congo reform campaign
- 4 Photography, visual culture, and the Armenian genocide
- 5 Developing the humanitarian image in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century China
- 6 Photography, cinema, and the quest for influence: the international committee of the Red Cross in the wake of the first world war
- 7 Children and other civilians: photography and the politics of humanitarian image-making
- 8 Sights of benevolence: UNRRA's recipients portrayed
- 9 All the world loves a picture: the World Health Organization's visual politics, 1948-73
- 10 'A' as in Auschwitz, 'B' as in Biafra: the Nigerian civil war, visual narratives of genocide, and the fragmented universalization of the Holocaust
- 11 Finding the right image: British development NGOs and the regulation of imagery
- 12 Dilemmas of ethical practice in the production of contemporary humanitarian photography