Peace Photography

Description

This study thinks with photography about peace. It asks how photography can represent peace, and how such representation can contribute to peace. The book offers an original critique of the almost exclusive focus on violence in recent work on visual culture and presents a completely new research agenda within the overall framework of visual peace research. Critically engaging with both photojournalism and art photography in light of peace theories, it looks for visual representations or anticipations of peace – peace or peace as a potentiality – in the work of selected photographers including Robert Capa and Richard Mosse, thus reinterpreting photography from the Spanish Civil War to current anti-migration politics in Europe. The book argues that peace photography is episodic, culturally specific, process-oriented and considerate of both the past and the future. Front Matter ....Pages i-xviii Front Matter ....Pages 1-1 Introduction: Peace Photography, the Ultimate Provocation (Frank Möller)....Pages 3-31 Peace and Peace Photography (Frank Möller)....Pages 33-57 Visual Peace: Towards a Sociology of Visual Knowledge (Frank Möller)....Pages 59-85 Front Matter ....Pages 87-87 This Is Peace!—Robert Capa at Work (Frank Möller)....Pages 89-103 Peace Photography and the Archive (Frank Möller)....Pages 105-131 The Aftermath-as-Event (Frank Möller)....Pages 133-157 Memory, Truth and Justice: On Forensic Photography (Frank Möller)....Pages 159-184 Front Matter ....Pages 185-185 Remembering Together (Frank Möller)....Pages 187-207 Imagination, Invisibility and Hyper-Visibility (Frank Möller)....Pages 209-236 The Visual Culture of Security Communities (Frank Möller)....Pages 237-259 Back Matter ....Pages 261-290