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Author | : Kerstin Schankweiler |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 292 |
Release | : 2018-12-17 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0429786239 |
Recent political conflicts signal an increased proliferation of image testimonies shared widely via social media. Although witnessing with and through images is not a phenomenon of the internet era, contemporary digital image practices and politics have significantly intensified the affective economies of image testimonies. This volume traces the contours of these conditions and develops a conception of image testimony along four areas of focus. The first and second section of this volume reflects the discussion of image testimonies as an interplay of evidential qualities and their potential to express affective relationalities and emotional involvement. The third section focuses on the question of how social media technologies shape and subsequently are shaped by image testimonies. To further complicate the ethical position of the witness, the final section looks at image testimony at the intersection of creation and destruction, taking into account the perspectives of different actors and their opposed moral positions. With an emphasis on the affectivity of these images, Image Testimonies provides new and so far overlooked insights in the field. It will appeal to students and researchers interested in fields such as Sociology and Social Policy, Media and Communications, Visual Arts and Culture and Middle East Studies.
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Total Pages | : 204 |
Release | : 1992 |
Genre | : Art |
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Author | : Peter Burke |
Publisher | : Reaktion Books |
Total Pages | : 226 |
Release | : 2006-01-27 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1861898282 |
Eyewitnessing evaluates the place of images among other kinds of historical evidence. By reviewing the many varieties of images by region, period and medium, and looking at the pragmatic uses of images (e.g. the Bayeux Tapestry, an engraving of a printing press, a reconstruction of a building), Peter Burke sheds light on our assumption that these practical uses are 'reflections' of specific historical meanings and influences. He also shows how this assumption can be problematic. Traditional art historians have depended on two types of analysis when dealing with visual imagery: iconography and iconology. Burke describes and evaluates these approaches, concluding that they are insufficient. Focusing instead on the medium as message and on the social contexts and uses of images, he discusses both religious images and political ones, also looking at images in advertising and as commodities. Ultimately, Burke's purpose is to show how iconographic and post-iconographic methods – psychoanalysis, semiotics, viewer response, deconstruction – are both useful and problematic to contemporary historians.
Author | : Georges Didi-Huberman |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 250 |
Release | : 2008-10-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0226148165 |
Of one and a half million surviving photographs related to Nazi concentration camps, only four depict the actual process of mass killing perpetrated at the gas chambers. Images in Spite of All reveals that these rare photos of Auschwitz, taken clandestinely by one of the Jewish prisoners forced to help carry out the atrocities there, were made as a potent act of resistance. Available today because they were smuggled out of the camp and into the hands of Polish resistance fighters, the photographs show a group of naked women being herded into the gas chambers and the cremation of corpses that have just been pulled out. Georges Didi-Huberman’s relentless consideration of these harrowing scenes demonstrates how Holocaust testimony can shift from texts and imaginations to irrefutable images that attempt to speak the unspeakable. Including a powerful response to those who have criticized his interest in these images as voyeuristic, Didi-Huberman’s eloquent reflections constitute an invaluable contribution to debates over the representability of the Holocaust and the status of archival photographs in an image-saturated world.
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Publisher | : Financial Times/Prentice Hall |
Total Pages | : 292 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
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Gathers some of the most dramatic and memorable images of the events of September 11, 2001, and the days following, including rescue efforts and reactions around the world.
Author | : Michelle Bogre |
Publisher | : Taylor & Francis |
Total Pages | : 175 |
Release | : 2012 |
Genre | : Photography |
ISBN | : 0240812751 |
The only book to cover the most popular tool for social change - photography.
Author | : A. Daniel Yarmey |
Publisher | : New York : Free Press |
Total Pages | : 312 |
Release | : 1979 |
Genre | : Law |
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Author | : Steffi de Jong |
Publisher | : Berghahn Books |
Total Pages | : 282 |
Release | : 2018-01-31 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 1785336436 |
Today more than ever before, the historical witness is now a “museum objectâ€_x009d_ in the form of video interviews with individuals remembering events of historical importance. Such video testimonies now not only are part of the collections and research activities of museums, but become deeply intertwined with narrative and exhibit design. With a focus on Holocaust museums, this study scrutinizes for the first time this new global process of “musealisationâ€_x009d_ of testimony, exploring the processes, prerequisites, and consequences of the transformation of video testimonies into exhibits.
Author | : Sybille Krämer |
Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | : 337 |
Release | : 2017-08-23 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 1783489774 |
What is the epistemological value of testimony? What role does language, images, and memory play in its construction? What is the relationship between the person who attests and those who listen? Is bearing witness a concept that is exclusively based in interpersonal relations? Or are there other modes of communicating or mediating to constitute a constellation of testimony? Testimony/Bearing Witness establishes a dialogue between the different approaches to testimony in epistemology, historiography, law, art, media studies and psychiatry. With examples including the Holocaust, the Khmer Rouge Killing Fields and the Armenian genocide the volume discusses the chances and limits of communicating epistemological and ethical, philosophical and cultural-historical, past and present perspectives on the phenomenon and concept of bearing witness.
Author | : Richard Bauckham |
Publisher | : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing |
Total Pages | : 553 |
Release | : 2008-09-22 |
Genre | : Bibles |
ISBN | : 0802863906 |
Noted New Testament scholar Bauckham challenges the prevailing assumption the accounts of Jesus circulated as "anonymous community traditions," instead asserting that they were transmitted in the name of the original eyewitness.