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A network of witnesses: photography and genocide

In: Handbook of Genocide Studies

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This chapter explores how photography is inextricably linked to our perception and understanding of genocide, and the role it plays in both documenting and interpreting abuses of human rights. Photography has been variously used as a journalistic news, as a form of evidence in court, as a testimony to the lives lost in genocides, as the trophy of perpetrators, and as a site of memory to try to understand the enormous scale of atrocity. Photographs are multivalent in their ability not just to provide descriptive value but also as imaginative spaces to use to think through and with and to engage in an empathic relationship with the viewer. Case studies will include how images have been used in the documentation of the liberation of the camps in 1945, in the journalistic coverage of the conflict in the former Yugoslavia and in the court processes of the ICTY, in museum cultures, and by artists exploring the aftermath of atrocity.

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  • Paul Lowe, 2023. "A network of witnesses: photography and genocide," Chapters, in: David J. Simon & Leora Kahn (ed.), Handbook of Genocide Studies, chapter 18, pages 248-261, Edward Elgar Publishing.
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