1st Edition

Private Pictures Soldiers' Inside View of War

By Janina Struk Copyright 2011
230 Pages
by Routledge

230 Pages
by Routledge

Snapshots taken by American soldiers of Iraqi prisoners stripped naked, humiliated and tortured shocked the world in 2004 and more have followed from the conflict in Afghanistan, but whether the public have been horrified by the soldiers' conduct or the fact they have taken pictures has not been clear. In fact, as this remarkable book reveals and relates, soldiers have taken photographs of war and... Read more

1. Outrage at Abu Ghraib  2. Learning to Photograph War  3. Telling Tales  4. Photographs as Resistance  5. How Pictures Can Haunt a Nation  6. Inadmissible Evidence  7. Breaking the Silence  8. The Inside View of War

Biography

Janina Struk is a freelance photographer and writer, and author of the highly acclaimed 'Photographing the Holocaust', also published by I.B. Tauris.