Carrabine, Eamonn (2018) Traces of violence: Representing the atrocities of war. Criminology and Criminal Justice, 18 (5). pp. 631-646. DOI https://doi.org/10.1177/1748895818789448
Carrabine, Eamonn (2018) Traces of violence: Representing the atrocities of war. Criminology and Criminal Justice, 18 (5). pp. 631-646. DOI https://doi.org/10.1177/1748895818789448
Carrabine, Eamonn (2018) Traces of violence: Representing the atrocities of war. Criminology and Criminal Justice, 18 (5). pp. 631-646. DOI https://doi.org/10.1177/1748895818789448
Abstract
This article explores the relationships between war and representation through the use of visual images, and takes a cue from the French cultural theorist Paul Virilio, who has written extensively on the militarization of vision in ways that have yet to be fully recognized in criminology. It then outlines some of the disputes surrounding documentary photography, not least since one of the main factors driving the development of the medium was the desire to record warfare, before turning to recent efforts to reconfigure the violence of representation by focusing on what has been termed ‘aftermath photography’, where practitioners deliberately adopt an anti-reportage position, slowing down the image-making process and arriving well after the decisive moment. This more contemplative strategy challenges the oversimplification of much photojournalism and the article concludes by reflecting on how military-turned-consumer technologies are structuring our everyday lives in more and more pervasive ways.
Item Type: | Article |
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Uncontrolled Keywords: | Criminology, photography, representation, Virilio, war |
Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HM Sociology |
Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences Faculty of Social Sciences > Sociology and Criminology, Department of |
SWORD Depositor: | Unnamed user with email elements@essex.ac.uk |
Depositing User: | Unnamed user with email elements@essex.ac.uk |
Date Deposited: | 20 Sep 2018 09:23 |
Last Modified: | 30 Oct 2024 16:15 |
URI: | http://repository.essex.ac.uk/id/eprint/23068 |
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