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War/photography : images of armed conflict and its aftermath
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- Summary
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"More than 480 images illustrate the relationship between photography and war, showing the experience of armed conflict through the eyes of photographers across two centuries and six continents"--
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- Creator
- Anne Wilkes Tucker and Will Michels with Natalie Zelt ; With contributions by Jeffrey Wm. Hunt [and others]
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- Language
- English
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- Publication
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- Houston : Museum of Fine Arts, Houston ; New Haven : Distributed by Yale University Press, [2012]
- ©2012
- Physical Details
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- 606 pages : chiefly illustrations (some color) ; 33 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780300177381, 0300177380
- OCLC
- ocn785865163
- "This catalogue was published to coincide with the exhibition WAR/PHOTOGRAPHY: Images of Armed Conflict and Its Aftermath, organized by the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, November 11, 2012-February 3, 2013"--Title page verso.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Foreword / Gary Tinterow -- Introduction / Anne Wilkes Tucker -- War photographers : a special breed? / Hilary Roberts -- Part 1: Seeing eye to eye : the changing ways and means by which photographers' images have reached the public eye / Natalie Zelt ; Media coverage and dissemination ; The advent of war ; Recruitment and embarkation ; Training ; The "terrible reality" of the first living-room wars / John Stauffer. -- Part 2: Daily routine ; Reconnaissance, resistance, and sabotage ; Patrol and troop movement ; The wait ; German snapshots from World War I : Personal pictures, political implications / Bodo Von Dewitz. -- Part 3: The fight ; Rescue ; Aftermath: Shell shock, exhaustion ; Death ; Grief and battlefield burials and memorials ; Destruction of property ; Executions ; Iwo Jima ; Perspectives on images of armed conflict-an interview with Hilary Roberts and Jeffrey Wm. Hunt. -- Part 4: Leisure time ; Support ; Prisoners of war and interrogations ; Medicine: Wartime medicine ; Medicine subsequent to war ; Faith. -- Part 5: Portraits of war : a photographer's perspective / Will Michels ; Portraits ; Photographic essays ; Civilians: Civilian daily life ; Civilian dead and wounded ; Civilian grief ; Refugees ; Children ; Soldier photography : visualizing the war in Iraq / Liam Kennedy. -- Part 6: War's end : victory and defeat ; Retribution ; Homecoming ; Memorials ; Remembrance