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Picturing Peace

Photography, Conflict Transformation, and Peacebuilding
Buch | Hardcover
352 Seiten
2025
Bloomsbury Visual Arts (Verlag)
978-1-350-25885-3 (ISBN)
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How can photographers, curators, and editors convey narratives of peace and not just stories of war?
Providing interdisciplinary and international perspectives on timely debates, Picturing Peace explores humanitarianism and visual culture, community collaboration, collective memory, and imagined futures for creating and sustaining of civil societies. How things look and are perceived are not superficial issues; when it comes to war and conflict, photography is vitally relevant not only to documenting violence, but also to rebuilding peaceful societies.

Genealogies of photographic representation and conflict; ethical questions related to the gaze and decolonisation; the significance of archival material for reassessing the cultural construction of enmity and harmony; and, finally, how recent initiatives have sought to think through and enact possibilities for peace. These timely issues - operating between picturing and peacebuilding - feed into a wider, urgent question: how can we care for a shared world?

Exploring multiple forms of peace photography, the volume offers a range of voices from preeminent international scholars, as well as interviews with practicing photographers who have experience of working with post-conflict communities, including Jacques Nkinginzabo (Learning for Change, Rwanda); Newsha Tavakolian (Magnum Photos); and Martina Bacigalupo (Agence Vu). Picturing Peace is a timely investigation into the politics of representation, questioning how photographers might help foster social relationships, transform conflicts, and reconcile communities in the image-oriented cultures of the 20th and 21st centuries.

Tom Allbeson is Senior Lecturer in Media History at the School of Journalism, Media and Culture at Cardiff University, UK. He is co-editor of the Journal of War and Culture Studies, author of Photography, Reconstruction and the Cultural History of the Postwar European City, and co-author of Conflicting Images: Histories of War Photography in the News (2024). His research concerns media history and visual culture in contemporary Europe and the US with specialisms in photojournalism and conflict, visual culture and reconstruction, collective memory in post-conflict societies, and urban history. Jolyon Mitchell is Professor of Communications, Arts and Religion at the University of Edinburgh, UK, and Director of the Centre for Theology and Public Issues (CTPI). His research and teaching focuses on religion, violence and peacebuilding with particular reference to the visual arts. He has published extensively on the uses of different media arts in promoting peace and inciting violence. Pippa Oldfield is Senior Lecturer in Photography at Teesside University, UK, and former Head of Programme at Impressions Gallery, Bradford. She is the author of Photography and War and has curated numerous exhibitions on the topic of conflict and its aftermath including Bringing the War Home: Photographic Responses to Recent Conflict in Iraq and Afghanistan and No Man’s Land: Women’s Photographic Viewpoints on the First World War.

List of Plates
List of Figures
Note on Contributors
Foreword, JP Singh (George Mason University, USA)
Series Editor’s Preface
Acknowledgements

Introduction, Tom Allbeson (University of Cardiff, UK) and Pippa Oldfield (Teesside University, UK)

Part One: Genealogies
1. Humanitarian Photography: From Mediating Suffering to Visualizing Peace, Roland Bleiker and Emma Hutchison (University of Queensland, Australia)
2. Photography, Civilians and the Polemics of Peace: A Historical Perspective, Heide Fehrenbach (Northern Illinois University, USA)
3. Peace Photography and the Temporality of the Aftermath, Frank Möller (University of Tampere, Finland)
4. Tragedy, Recognition and Photography: Affective Traditions of Witnessing, Jennifer Wallace (University of Cambridge, UK)

Part Two: Whose Photography, Whose Peace?
5. Re-framing or De-centering the White Gaze of Peace? Peace Photography, Colonial Durability and Opacity in Dialogue, Astrid Jamar (University of Antwerp, Belgium) and François Makanga (Independent, Belgium)
6. How (Not) to Picture Africa, Martina Bacigalupo in conversation with Sharon Sliwinski
7. Community and Participatory Photography as Peace Photography: Cases from Latin America, Tiffany Fairey (King’s College London, UK)
8. Journeys Towards Light, Newsha Tavakolian in conversation with Pippa Oldfield


Part Three: From the Archives: Protest Between Activism & Authoritarianism
9. Gender at the Peace Table: Photographic Visualizations of Peacemaking in the First World War, Pippa Oldfield (Teesside University, UK)
10. Peace and its Discontents: Right-Wing Visions of Peace in the Weimar Republic, J.J. Long (Durham University, UK)
11. Publishing for Peace: Newsworthiness, Authorship and Photobooks of the Vietnam Era, Tom Allbeson (Cardiff University, UK)
12. Countering Men’s Visions of Destruction with a Vision of Life: Greenham Common’s Ecofeminist Imaginaries of Peace, Mathilde Bertrand (Université Bordeaux Montaigne, France)


Part Four: Aftermaths and Futures
13. Visualizing the Scars of War: Sexual Trauma, Temporality and Post-conflict Photography, Wendy Kozol (Oberlin College, US)
14. The Images That Define Us: A Photo Elicitation Interview, Jacques Nkinzingabo in conversation with Tiffany Fairey
15. Photography, Peace and the Everyday, Paul Lowe (University of the Arts London, UK)

Bibliography
Index

Erscheint lt. Verlag 23.1.2025
Reihe/Serie New Encounters: Arts, Cultures, Concepts
Zusatzinfo 61 bw illus
Verlagsort London
Sprache englisch
Maße 156 x 234 mm
Themenwelt Kunst / Musik / Theater Allgemeines / Lexika
Kunst / Musik / Theater Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile
Sozialwissenschaften Politik / Verwaltung
ISBN-10 1-350-25885-7 / 1350258857
ISBN-13 978-1-350-25885-3 / 9781350258853
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