Picturing atrocity ; photography in crisis

This title taps into the widespread interest in, and concern about, photographs of atrocity. The book contains a broad range of atrocity photographs from throughout history and around the world, as well as essays by well-known artists and photographers
CONTENTS:
Jay Prosser: Introduction p. 7
Response and Responsibility p. 15
Rebecca Solnit : Words Can Kill: Haiti and the Vocabulary of Disaster p. 17
Mick Gidley: Visible and Invisible Scars of Wounded Knee p. 25
Christina Twomey: Severed Hands: Authenticating Atrocity in the Congo, 1904-13 p. 39
Peggy Phelan : Atrocity and Action: The Performative Force of the Abu Ghraib Photographs p. 51
Becoming Iconic p. 63
Griselda Pollock : Photographing Atrocity: Becoming Iconic? p. 65
David Campbell : The Iconography of Famine p. 79
D.J. Clark : A Single Image of Famine in China p. 93
Elizabeth Abel : History at a Standstill: Agency and Gender in the Image of Civil Rights p. 105
Photographing Atrocity p. 115
Susdan Meiselas : Body on a Hillside p. 117
Shahidul Alam : Crossfire p. 123
Circulation and Public Culture p. 133
Robert Hariman and John Louis Lucaites : The Iconic Image of the Mushroom Cloud and the Cold War Nuclear Optic p. 135
Nancy K. Miller : The Girl in the Photograph: The Visual Legacies of War p. 147
Barbie Zelizer : Atrocity, the "As If," and Impending Death from the Khmer Rouge p. 155
Tom Junod : The Falling Man p. 167
Ordinary Atrocities p. 177
Marianne Hirsch and Leo Spitzer : Street Photographs in Crisis: Cernauti, Romania, c. 1943 p. 179
Paul Lowe : Picturing the Perpetrator p. 189
Hilary Roberts : War Trophy Photographs: Proof or Pornography? p. 201
Darren Newbury : Picturing an "Ordinary Atrocity": The Sharpeville Massacre p. 209
Atrocity Askance p. 225
Geoffrey Batchen : Looking Askance p. 227
Mark Durden : Documentary Pictorial: Luc Delahaye's Taliban, 2001 p. 241
Ariella Azoulay : The Execution Portrait p. 249
Fred Ritchin : Toward a Hyperphotography p. 261
The Afterlife of Photographs p. 273
Alfredo Jaar and David Leivi Strauss : Lament of the Images p. 275
Lorie Novak : Photographic Interference p. 283
References p. 293 ; Contributors p. 313 ; Acknowledgments p. 317 ; Photo Acknowledgments p. 318 ; Permissions p. 319 ;