Cold War Camera
1st Edition
Published on 14. November 2022
424 pages
978-1-4780-2319-7 (ISBN)
Description
Examining a wide range of photography from across the global South, the contributors to Cold War Camera explore the visual mediation of the Cold War, illuminating how photography shaped how it was prosecuted and experienced.
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Thy Phu | Erina Duganne | Andrea Noble
Cold War Camera
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12/2022
Duke University Press
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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 Lê 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 / Ángeles 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 Aïsha 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 Lê 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 / Ángeles 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 Aïsha 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
