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Research Point - Part 3

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Watch Fred Ritchin’s lecture, where he discusses several key aspects of the digitalisation of

photography, including his description of ‘photographs of the future’, at Link 1


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RESEARCH POINT OPTIONAL 1

For an in-depth discussion of the role of the photograph and video in rituals, see Grimes,

R.L. (2006) Rite out of Place: Ritual, Media and the Arts, Oxford: Oxford University Press.

For a general introduction to the topic of death and photography, see Wells, 2009, p.244.

For more on post mortem photography, see Linkman, A. (2011) Photography & Death

(Exposures), London: Reaktion Books and Ruby, J. (1995) Secure the Shadow: Death and

Photography in America, Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.


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Read Peggy Phelan’s essay ‘Atrocity and Action: The Performative Force of the Abu Ghraib

Photographs’ in Batchen, G. et al (eds.) (2012) Picturing Atrocity: Photography in Crisis,

London: Reaktion Books, pp.51 – 61. You’ll find this on the student website (PH5DIC_

Picturing Atrocity_Atrocity and Action).

• Read about Abdel Karim Khalil’s We Are Living the American Democracy at Link 2

RESEARCH POINT OPTIONAL 2

Research point (optional) 2

If you’re interested in this topic, see:

Books: Danner, M. (2004) Torture and Truth: America, Abu Ghraib and the War on Terror. New

York: NYRB

Gray, J. et al (2004) Abu Ghraib: The Politics of Torture. Berkeley: North Atlantic Books

Eisenman, S. (2007) The Abu Ghraib Effect. London: Reaktion Books

Films: The Ghosts of Abu Ghraib (Dir. Rory Kennedy, 2007)

Standard Operating Procedure (Dir. Errol Morris, 2008)

Artworks: Hans Haacke’s Star Gazing (2004)

Abdel Karim Khalil’s We Are Living the American Democracy (2008)


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Read Allan, S. ‘Blurring Boundaries: Professional and Citizen Journalism in a Digital Age’

(pp.187–200) in Lister, M. (2013) The Photographic Image in Digital Culture, provided with

your course materials.

• Read Jose Navarro’s blog criticising the BBC’s use of images of the 2012 Denver cinema

shootings at Link 4

• Read this useful essay on the 7/7 bombings and citizen journalism at Link 5


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RESEARCH POINT OPTIONAL 3

Research point (optional) 3

If you’re interested in the idea of compassion fatigue, see David Campbell’s ‘The Myth of

Compassion Fatigue’ at Link 7

Not in relation to these conflicts, but also worth noting, is Richard Mosse’s project Infra

(2012). See Link 8


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If you can access a copy, read the final section ‘Post Photojournalism’ (pp.225–69) in Post-

Photography by Robert Shore, London: Laurence King, 2014.

• Read Mark Durden’s essay ‘Documentary Pictorial: Luc Delahaye’s Taliban, 2001’ in Batchen,

G. et al (eds.) (2012) Picturing Atrocity: Photography in Crisis, London: Reaktion Books,

pp.241–48. You’ll find this on the student website (PH5DIC_Picturing Atrocity_Taliban).

• Watch Tim Hetherington’s documentary Restrepo which he made with Sebastian Junger

while embedded with US Marines in 2008 at one of the most dangerous outposts in

Afghanistan: Link 12






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