Cold War Camera
Published on 16. December 2022
Book
Hardback
432 pages
978-1-4780-1595-6 (ISBN)
Description
Cold War Camera explores the visual mediation of the Cold War and illuminates photography's role in shaping the ways it was prosecuted and experienced. The contributors show how the camera stretched the parameters of the Cold War beyond dominant East-West and US-USSR binaries and highlight the significance of photography from across the global South. Among other topics, the contributors examine the production and circulation of the iconic figure of the "revolutionary Vietnamese woman" in the 1960s and 1970s; photographs connected with the coming of independence and decolonization in West Africa; family photograph archives in China and travel snapshots by Soviet citizens; photographs of apartheid in South Africa; and the circulation of photographs of Inuit Canadians who were relocated to the extreme Arctic in the 1950s. Highlighting the camera's capacity to envision possible decolonialized futures, establish visual affinities and solidarities, and advance calls for justice to redress violent proxy conflicts, this volume demonstrates that photography was not only crucial to conducting the Cold War, it is central to understanding it.
Contributors. Ariella Azoulay, Jennifer Bajorek, Erina Duganne, Evyn LE Espiritu Gandhi, Eric Gottesman, Tong Lam, Karintha Lowe, Angeles Donoso Macaya, Darren Newbury, Andrea Noble, Sarah Parsons, Gil Pasternak, Thy Phu, Oksana Sarkisova, Olga Shevchenko, Laura Wexler, Guigui Yao, Donya Ziaee, Marta Zietkiewicz
Contributors. Ariella Azoulay, Jennifer Bajorek, Erina Duganne, Evyn LE Espiritu Gandhi, Eric Gottesman, Tong Lam, Karintha Lowe, Angeles Donoso Macaya, Darren Newbury, Andrea Noble, Sarah Parsons, Gil Pasternak, Thy Phu, Oksana Sarkisova, Olga Shevchenko, Laura Wexler, Guigui Yao, Donya Ziaee, Marta Zietkiewicz
Reviews / Votes
"Cold War Camera takes readers from South Africa to Ethiopia, Vietnam to Palestine and Iran, from Chile to China, the Arctic Circle, and beyond. Its reach is sweeping, revealing a world entirely, if differentially, impacted as its most powerful quarreled to suture their place at the top. Just as it sheds light on this rich and storied past, Cold War Camera illuminates the present, proving that the tension and violence associated with the 'official' Cold War-era never ceased but only took on different forms." - Liz Hallgren (International Journal of Communication) "Cold War Camera more than makes the case for photography's significance as a site of Cold War contestation and modality for reckoning with its violences, including at the most intimate of scales. . . . It is in the contributions of the book as a collective endeavor, exemplified by the collaboratively written introduction and essays, that the promises of a critically global approach to Cold War structures of seeing emerge most powerfully, as vital for tracing the operations and ramifications of a set of knowledge projects premised, at least in part, on their obfuscation." - Nadine Attewell (The Communication Review) "Cold War Camera brings together some exceptional photography writers in a collection exploring an astonishing range of source images. . . ." - Georgia Vesma (History of Photography) "In its breadth and coverage of the politics of photography in the twentieth century, Cold War Camera is unmatched. . . . [it] represents a new generation of the historiography and critique of political photography." - Delinda Collier (Art Bulletin)More details
Language
English
Place of publication
North Carolina
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Cloth over boards
Illustrations
104 illustrations, incl. 29 in color
Dimensions
Height: 236 mm
Width: 160 mm
Thickness: 25 mm
Weight
953 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-4780-1595-6 (9781478015956)
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Schweitzer Classification
Persons
Thy Phu is Professor of Media Studies at the University of Toronto, Scarborough, and author of Warring Visions: Photography and Vietnam, also published by Duke University Press.
Erina Duganne is Professor of Art History at Texas State University and author of The Self in Black and White: Race and Subjectivity in Postwar American Photography.
Andrea Noble (1968-2017) was Professor of Latin American Studies at Durham University and author of Mexican National Cinema.
Erina Duganne is Professor of Art History at Texas State University and author of The Self in Black and White: Race and Subjectivity in Postwar American Photography.
Andrea Noble (1968-2017) was Professor of Latin American Studies at Durham University and author of Mexican National Cinema.
Content
List of Illustrations ix
Acknowledgments xv
Cold War Camera: An Introduction / Thy Phu, Andrea Noble, and Erina Duganne 1
Visual Alliances
1. Ernest Cole's House of Bondage, the United States Information Agency, and the Cultural Politics of the World War / Darren Newbury 33
2. Icon of Solidarity: The Revolutionary Vietnamese Woman in Vietnam, Palestine, and Iran / Thy Phu, Evyn LE Espiritu Gandi, and Donya Ziaee 67
3. Group Material's "Art for the Future": Visualizing Transnational Solidarity at the End of the Global Cold War / Erina Duganne 113
4. Interrogating the Cold War's Geo-Politics from Down South: Chile from Within (1990) and the Construction of a Situated Visuality / Angeles Donoso Macaya 143
5. Decolonization and Nonalignment: African Futures, Lost and Found / Jennifer Bajorek 167
Photo Essays
6. Bifurcated and Parallel Histories / Tong Lam 195
7. Preservation of Terror / Eric Gottesman 203
Structures of Seeing
8. Ending World War II: The Visual Literacy Class in Cold War Human Rights / Ariella AIsha Azoulay 213
9. "Planted There Like Human Flags": Photographs of the High Arctic and Cold War Anxiety, 1951-1956 / Sarah Parsons 239
10. Urban Albums, Village Forms: Chinese Family Photographs and the Cold War / Laura Wexler, Karintha Lowe, and Guigui Yao 263
11. Travel, Space, and Belonging in Soviet Domestic Photo Collections of the Cold War Era / Oksana Sarkosova and Olga Shevchenko 293
12. Exhibiting Ethnic Minorities, Democratizing History: Cold War Legacies and the Jews in Poland's Visible Sphere / Gil Pasternak and Marta Zietkiewicz 327
Bibliography 359
Contributors 389
Index 395
Acknowledgments xv
Cold War Camera: An Introduction / Thy Phu, Andrea Noble, and Erina Duganne 1
Visual Alliances
1. Ernest Cole's House of Bondage, the United States Information Agency, and the Cultural Politics of the World War / Darren Newbury 33
2. Icon of Solidarity: The Revolutionary Vietnamese Woman in Vietnam, Palestine, and Iran / Thy Phu, Evyn LE Espiritu Gandi, and Donya Ziaee 67
3. Group Material's "Art for the Future": Visualizing Transnational Solidarity at the End of the Global Cold War / Erina Duganne 113
4. Interrogating the Cold War's Geo-Politics from Down South: Chile from Within (1990) and the Construction of a Situated Visuality / Angeles Donoso Macaya 143
5. Decolonization and Nonalignment: African Futures, Lost and Found / Jennifer Bajorek 167
Photo Essays
6. Bifurcated and Parallel Histories / Tong Lam 195
7. Preservation of Terror / Eric Gottesman 203
Structures of Seeing
8. Ending World War II: The Visual Literacy Class in Cold War Human Rights / Ariella AIsha Azoulay 213
9. "Planted There Like Human Flags": Photographs of the High Arctic and Cold War Anxiety, 1951-1956 / Sarah Parsons 239
10. Urban Albums, Village Forms: Chinese Family Photographs and the Cold War / Laura Wexler, Karintha Lowe, and Guigui Yao 263
11. Travel, Space, and Belonging in Soviet Domestic Photo Collections of the Cold War Era / Oksana Sarkosova and Olga Shevchenko 293
12. Exhibiting Ethnic Minorities, Democratizing History: Cold War Legacies and the Jews in Poland's Visible Sphere / Gil Pasternak and Marta Zietkiewicz 327
Bibliography 359
Contributors 389
Index 395