Cold War Camera
$79.47
- Paperback
432 pages
- Release Date
30 December 2022
Summary
Cold War Camera explores the visual mediation of the Cold War and illuminates photography’s role in shaping the ways it was prosecuted and experienced. The contributors show how the camera stretched the parameters of the Cold War beyond dominant East-West and US-USSR binaries and highlight the significance of photography from across the global South. Among other topics, the contributors examine the production and circulation of the iconic figure of the “revolutionary Vietnamese woman…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781478018599 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1478018593 |
| Author: | Thy Phu, Erina Duganne, Andrea Noble |
| Publisher: | Duke University Press |
| Imprint: | Duke University Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 432 |
| Release Date: | 30 December 2022 |
| Weight: | 816g |
| Dimensions: | 152mm x 229mm |
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Critics Review
“Cold War Camera takes readers from South Africa to Ethiopia, Vietnam to Palestine and Iran, from Chile to China, the Arctic Circle, and beyond. Its reach is sweeping, revealing a world entirely, if differentially, impacted as its most powerful quarreled to suture their place at the top. Just as it sheds light on this rich and storied past, Cold War Camera illuminates the present, proving that the tension and violence associated with the ‘official’ Cold War-era never ceased but only took on different forms.” - Liz Hallgren (International Journal of Communication) “Cold War Camera more than makes the case for photography’s significance as a site of Cold War contestation and modality for reckoning with its violences, including at the most intimate of scales… . It is in the contributions of the book as a collective endeavor, exemplified by the collaboratively written introduction and essays, that the promises of a critically global approach to Cold War structures of seeing emerge most powerfully, as vital for tracing the operations and ramifications of a set of knowledge projects premised, at least in part, on their obfuscation.” - Nadine Attewell (The Communication Review) “Cold War Camera brings together some exceptional photography writers in a collection exploring an astonishing range of source images… .” - Georgia Vesma (History of Photography) “In its breadth and coverage of the politics of photography in the twentieth century, Cold War Camera is unmatched… . [it] represents a new generation of the historiography and critique of political photography.” - Delinda Collier (Art Bulletin)
Thy Phu
Thy Phu is Professor of Media Studies at the University of Toronto, Scarborough, and author of Warring Visions: Photography and Vietnam, also published by Duke University Press.
Erina Duganne is Professor of Art History at Texas State University and author of The Self in Black and White: Race and Subjectivity in Postwar American Photography.
Andrea Noble (1968–2017) was Professor of Latin American Studies at Durham University and author of Mexican National Cinema.
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