Von der Vorgeschichte des Abschieds. Bilder zum Zustand des Kriegerischen in der Fotografie. (The Prehistory of Departure. Pictures on the state of warfaring in photography)

Is it possible to speak of war photography today? War is an
event in which the course of history is suspended. War closes
and opens history. In this process, photography is on the side
of war, invading the historical and documenting that invasion.
From the troop deployment in the Texas War of 1846 and the
Crimean War, to the photographs of the "Harvest of Death" during
the American Civil War, the photography of war bears witness to
what is non-representable about war. Photography was important
for military logistics, as a weapon of "reconnaisance". At the
latest since the Gulf War and its satellite pictures,
photography as a medium of displaced time has ceded its role in
logistics to video, the medium of real time. In today's
television war reporting we may find out what is happening, but
never what has happened: the perpetuation of infinite end.
(Published Abstract)


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