ISBN: 9781780767895

Paperback: 288 pages
Publisher: I.B Tauris, 2014
Language: English
Package Dimensions: 14.6 x 2.2 x 23.4 cm

Photography has visualized international relations and conflicts from the mid-nineteenth century onwards and continues to be an important medium in framing the worlds of distant and suffering others. The Violence of the Image examines the roles of image producers and the functions of photographic imagery in the documentation and communication of wars, violent conflicts and human rights issues. The book focuses on photojournalism, the premier visual genre in news media framing of international affairs through much of the twentieth century.