War and Photography. A cultural history.

Chapters :
1. Photography, Theory, History ;
PART I. Propaganda and myth: the combatants ;
2. The republican militiamen ;
3. Insurgent soldiers and moors ;
4. Women-at-arms ;
PART II. The elusive ideal: the civilians :
5. Semiology and the city at war ;
6. The anthropology of civilian life ;
PART III. Taboo, anxiety and fascinations: the victims :
7. Refugees and the limitations of documentary ;
8. Casualties and the nature of photographic evidence ;
PART IV. Spain and after :
9. If not about Spain ... 1930s Britain and France ;
10. Vietnam, the Falkalnds, the Gulf: photography in the age of the simulacral ;
Notes / Bibliography / Index.