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Cold War Camera

Author : Thy Phu
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 1478023198
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (78 download)

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Download or read book Cold War Camera written by Thy Phu and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2022-11-14 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cold War Camera explores the visual mediation of the Cold War and illuminates photography’s role in shaping the ways it was prosecuted and experienced. The contributors show how the camera stretched the parameters of the Cold War beyond dominant East-West and US-USSR binaries and highlight the significance of photography from across the global South. Among other topics, the contributors examine the production and circulation of the iconic figure of the “revolutionary Vietnamese woman” in the 1960s and 1970s; photographs connected with the coming of independence and decolonization in West Africa; family photograph archives in China and travel snapshots by Soviet citizens; photographs of apartheid in South Africa; and the circulation of photographs of Inuit Canadians who were relocated to the extreme Arctic in the 1950s. Highlighting the camera’s capacity to envision possible decolonialized futures, establish visual affinities and solidarities, and advance calls for justice to redress violent proxy conflicts, this volume demonstrates that photography was not only crucial to conducting the Cold War, it is central to understanding it. Contributors. Ariella Azoulay, Jennifer Bajorek, Erina Duganne, Evyn Lê Espiritu Gandhi, Eric Gottesman, Tong Lam, Karintha Lowe, Ángeles Donoso Macaya, Darren Newbury, Andrea Noble, Sarah Parsons, Gil Pasternak, Thy Phu, Oksana Sarkisova, Olga Shevchenko, Laura Wexler, Guigui Yao, Donya Ziaee, Marta Ziętkiewicz

A Cold War Tourist and His Camera

Author : Martha Langford
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 0773590773
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (735 download)

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Download or read book A Cold War Tourist and His Camera written by Martha Langford and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2011-01-27 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Martha Langford and John Langford examine their father's apparently innocuous photographic experience, revealing the complexity of both the images and their creator. An intelligent and personal look at the ways that the historical and the private are represented and remembered, A Cold War Tourist and His Camera stages the family slide show as you've never seen it before.

Photography and Politics in America

Author : Lili Corbus Bezner
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Photography and Politics in America written by Lili Corbus Bezner and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although critics defended the trend, arguing that truly visionary art transcended politics, Bezner notes that the cold war era effectively silenced some of the most socially engaged photographers in American society."--BOOK JACKET.

The Secret History of KGB Spy Cameras

Author : H. Keith Melton
Publisher : Schiffer Military History
ISBN 13 : 9780764356162
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (561 download)

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Book Synopsis The Secret History of KGB Spy Cameras by : H. Keith Melton

Download or read book The Secret History of KGB Spy Cameras written by H. Keith Melton and published by Schiffer Military History. This book was released on 2018-10-28 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This lavishly photographed and authoritative book presents the secret history of Soviet subminiature spy cameras during the Cold War. It is a history that could only have been written by the veteran KGB technical intelligence officers who created and used the cameras in secret operations. With 350 photographs, the book reveals the history, development, and operational use of more than ninety secret cameras used by two of the world's most formidable intelligence services--the KGB (Komitet Gosudarstvennoy Bezopasnosti [Committee for State Security]) and GRU (Glavnoye Razvedyvatel'noye Upravleniye [Foreign Military Intelligence Agency of the Soviet Army])--for secretly copying documents, and for surveillance and compromise. Every major camera system used by the KGB, and several used by the GRU are included. A bonus at the end of the book is an exhaustive glossary on KGB and GRU photographic systems and optical devices. This book is a must-have for camera collectors, military enthusiasts, historians, and counterintelligence officers.

This was the Photo League

Author : Anne Tucker
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book This was the Photo League written by Anne Tucker and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Italian Humanist Photography from Fascism to the Cold War

Author : Martina Caruso
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000213129
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (2 download)

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Book Synopsis Italian Humanist Photography from Fascism to the Cold War by : Martina Caruso

Download or read book Italian Humanist Photography from Fascism to the Cold War written by Martina Caruso and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-08-19 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spanning four decades of radical political and social change in Italy, this interdisciplinary study explores photography’s relationship with Italian painting, film, literature, anthropological research and international photography. Evocative and powerful, Italian social documentary photography from the 1930s to the 1960s is a rich source of cultural history, reflecting a time of dramatic change. This book shows, through a wide range of images (some published for the first time) that to fully understand the photography of this period we must take a more expansive view than scholars have applied to date, considering issues of propaganda, aesthetics, religion, national identity and international influences. By setting Italian photography against a backdrop of social documentary and giving it a distinctive place in the global history of photography, this exciting volume of original research is of interest to art historians and scholars of Italian and visual culture studies.

The Secret History of STASI Spy Cameras

Author : H. Keith Melton
Publisher : Schiffer Military History
ISBN 13 : 9780764360459
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (64 download)

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Download or read book The Secret History of STASI Spy Cameras written by H. Keith Melton and published by Schiffer Military History. This book was released on 2020-10-28 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This lavishly illustrated and authoritative book presents the secret history of Stasi and Warsaw Pact subminiature spy cameras used during the Cold War. It is a history that could only have been written through the collaboration of veteran Stasi technical intelligence officers and the world's foremost historians on Cold War spy cameras and tradecraft. With more than 450 photographs, the book reveals the history, development, and operational use of more than 70 secret cameras as used by one of the world's most formidable intelligence services--East German Stasi, or MfS--for secretly copying documents, and for surveillance and compromise. Every major camera system used by the Stasi is covered. A bonus at the end of the book is an exhaustive glossary of Stasi and Warsaw Pact photographic systems and optical devices. This book is a must-have for camera collectors, military enthusiasts, historians, and counterintelligence officers.

Spy Camera

Author : Michael Pritchard
Publisher : Classic Collections
ISBN 13 : 9781874485001
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (85 download)

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Download or read book Spy Camera written by Michael Pritchard and published by Classic Collections. This book was released on 1993 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Spy, subminiature and detective cameras have long held a fascination for collectors and the general public alike, who often associate these cameras with the Cold War period of the 1950s. The desire to make small and disguised cameras, however, goes back much further, as far as the 1860s - although it was not until the more sensitive plates of the 1880s and, later, rollfilms were developed that subminiature cameras began to appear in all sorts of shapes and sizes. Many such cameras are still being made for covert use and industrial espionage" -- Dust jacket.

The Recording Machine

Author : Joshua Shannon
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300187270
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book The Recording Machine written by Joshua Shannon and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2017-01-01 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction. The Turn from Truth -- Chapter 1. Machine: Conceptual Photography -- Chapter 2. Matter: Art in the Desert -- Chapter 3. Surface: Photorealist Painting -- Chapter 4. System: Gerhard Richter -- Conclusion. The Lasting Problem of Realism -- Notes -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- V -- W -- Z -- Illustration Credits

Cold War Photographic Diplomacy

Author : Darren Newbury
Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 0271098228
Total Pages : 301 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book Cold War Photographic Diplomacy written by Darren Newbury and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2024 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Cameras at War

Author : John Wade
Publisher : Pen and Sword Military
ISBN 13 : 1526760134
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (267 download)

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Download or read book Cameras at War written by John Wade and published by Pen and Sword Military. This book was released on 2020-07-30 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Books about war and the pictures that came out of conflict usually concentrate on the picture content. But behind every picture there is a camera – and that’s what this book is about. Profusely illustrated throughout with pictures of the cameras, rather than the pictures they took, it looks at 100 years of conflict from the Crimean War to the Korean War. It begins in the days when a photographer needed to be more of a scientist than an artist, such were the difficulties of shooting and processing any photograph. It ends with the cameras whose compact dimensions, versatility and ease of use meant that photographers could largely forget the science and concentrate on the art. Some cameras simply recorded events. Others defined and changed the way those events proceeded. These were the cameras that went to war, and this is their story.

The Big Picture

Author : John W. Lemza
Publisher : University Press of Kansas
ISBN 13 : 0700632530
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (6 download)

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Download or read book The Big Picture written by John W. Lemza and published by University Press of Kansas. This book was released on 2021-09-29 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Capitalizing on thousands of feet of accumulated footage captured by combat camera crews during the early years of the Korean War, a small group of US Army officers conceptualized a film series that would widen viewers’ understanding of the service and its mission. Their efforts produced the documentary television series that in late 1951 would become The Big Picture. Although it would take years to fully utilize the emerging technologies and develop the concept into a popularly recognized television series, The Big Picture did evolve into a vehicle whose intention was to help the army tell its story, sell its relevance in the emerging Cold War, and inform and educate its audience about American ideals. Its messages captured the early post-1945 zeitgeist and reflected a national mood that was anticommunist, steeped in foundational principles of American exceptionalism, and trusting of elite leadership. John W. Lemza’s The Big Picture argues that the show, like others produced for television during that time by the armed forces, served as a vehicle for directed propaganda, scripted to send important Cold War messages to both those in uniform and the American public. In this first systematic study of its production and reception history as well as its themes and cultural impact, Lemza shows how the producers incorporated specific Cold War themes, such as anticommunism, into episodes and deployed television’s small screen as the intersection of propaganda and policy during the Cold War period. John Lemza’s study reveals that the longer The Big Picture maintained those themes the more they began to lose their resonance, especially when the cultural and social environment of the United States began changing in the mid-1960s. The series producers chose to continue on a course that was set during the early Cold War years, and the credibility of the show began to suffer. Throughout the course of its two-decade production run, however, The Big Picture cast a big shadow as the premier military program influencing viewing audiences through primetime television and syndication.

Warring Visions

Author : Thy Phu
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 1478012919
Total Pages : 177 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (78 download)

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Download or read book Warring Visions written by Thy Phu and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2021-10-18 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Warring Visions, Thy Phu explores photography from dispersed communities throughout Vietnam and the Vietnamese diaspora, both during and after the Vietnam War, to complicate narratives of conflict and memory. While the visual history of the Vietnam War has been dominated by American documentaries and war photography, Phu turns to photographs circulated by the Vietnamese themselves, capturing a range of subjects, occasions, and perspectives. Phu's concept of warring visions refers to contrasts in the use of war photos in North Vietnam, which highlighted national liberation and aligned themselves with an international audience, and those in South Vietnam, which focused on family and everyday survival. Phu also uses warring visions to enlarge the category of war photography, a genre that usually consists of images illustrating the immediacy of combat and the spectacle of violence, pain, and wounded bodies. She pushes this genre beyond such definitions by analyzing pictures of family life, weddings, and other quotidian scenes of life during the war. Phu thus expands our understanding of how war is waged, experienced, and resolved.

Tactical Reconnaissance in the Cold War

Author : Doug Gordon
Publisher : Pen and Sword
ISBN 13 : 1844153320
Total Pages : 317 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (441 download)

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Download or read book Tactical Reconnaissance in the Cold War written by Doug Gordon and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2005-11-19 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book describes how the United States Air Force tactical reconnaissance units operated from the end of World War II until the 1970s. This was an immensely active period that also included major conflicts in Korea and Vietnam. It was also a period of rapid technological development in aircraft and photographic techniques. The book includes the following: Introduction: The post war period in Europe and the East. The Korean Conflict and the role of the 67th TRW from 1950 to 1954. The role of the highly secret RF-86 missions over Red China and the Soviet Far East in the early to mid '50s. Also the RB-57A missions out of Bitburg and Yokota flying clandestinely over the Soviet Union and the RF-100A missions that were flown over the Soviet Union from Turkey, Rhine Maine and Yokota. United States Air Forces in Europe. The Cuban Missile Crisis and the role of the RF-101 Voodoos and RB-66s. Highly Illustrated with 164 colour & 221 Mono photos, 13 colour profiles and 9 colour insignia. Profiles designed by Robbie Robson.

Photography and American Coloniality

Author : Raoul J. Granqvist
Publisher : MSU Press
ISBN 13 : 1628952881
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (289 download)

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Download or read book Photography and American Coloniality written by Raoul J. Granqvist and published by MSU Press. This book was released on 2017-04-01 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the first to question both why and how the colonialist mythologies represented by the work of photographer Eliot Elisofon persist. It documents and discusses a heterogeneous practice of American coloniality of power as it explores Elisofon’s career as war photographer-correspondent and staff photographer for LIFE, filmmaker, author, artist, and collector of “primitive art” and sculpture. It focuses on three areas: Elisofon’s narcissism, voyeurism, and sexism; his involvement in the homogenizing of Western social orders and colonial legacies; and his enthused mission of “sending home” a mass of still-life photographs, annexed African artifacts, and assumed vintage knowledge. The book does not challenge his artistic merit or his fascinating personality; what it does question is his production and imagining of “difference.” As the text travels from World War II to colonialism, postcolonialism, and the Cold War, from Casablanca to Leopoldville (Kinshasa), it proves to be a necessarily strenuous and provocative trip.

Photography and Flight

Author : Denis Cosgrove
Publisher : Reaktion Books
ISBN 13 : 1861898479
Total Pages : 149 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (618 download)

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Download or read book Photography and Flight written by Denis Cosgrove and published by Reaktion Books. This book was released on 2010-04-01 with total page 149 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Used for everything from geographic evaluation to secret spy missions, aerial photography has a rich and storied history, ably recounted here in Photography and Flight. Aerial photography is marked by its dependency on technological developments in both photography and aerospace, and the authors chart the history of this photography as it tracked the evolution of these technologies. Beginning with early images taken from hot-air balloons, fixed platforms, and subsequent handheld camera technology, Denis Cosgrove and William Fox then explain how military reconnaissance and governmental projects were instrumental in catalyzing these and other innovations in the field. They examine pivotal historical moments in which aerial photography began to establish itself as essential tool, such as in World War II military strategies, high-altitude photography taken from postwar rockets and aircraft, and the use of aerial photography during the cold war and the Cuban Missile Crisis. The book also explores the advancement of geographic scholarship through aerial photography, ranging from military excursions into Antarctica to the images of the curvature of the earth taken during the Apollo space missions. While digital technology and remote sensing have changed the landscape of photography, Photography and Flight argues that they have not diminished the significance of aerial photography in providing images of the earth. Rather, new technologies and resulting innovations such as Google Earth have enabled the mass democratization of access to such information. Photography and Flight ultimately reveals how the camera lens from far away continues to unearth telling details about the land and those who live upon it.

The Routledge Companion to Photography Theory

Author : Mark Durden
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317541588
Total Pages : 483 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (175 download)

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Download or read book The Routledge Companion to Photography Theory written by Mark Durden and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-11-07 with total page 483 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With newly commissioned essays by some of the leading writers on photography today, this companion tackles some of the most pressing questions about photography theory’s direction, relevance, and purpose. This book shows how digital technologies and global dissemination have radically advanced the pluralism of photographic meaning and fundamentally transformed photography theory. Having assimilated the histories of semiotic analysis and post-structural theory, critiques of representation continue to move away from the notion of original and copy and towards materiality, process, and the interdisciplinary. The implications of what it means to ‘see’ an image is now understood to encompass, not only the optical, but the conceptual, ethical, and haptic experience of encountering an image. The 'fractal' is now used to theorize the new condition of photography as an algorithmic medium and leads us to reposition our relationship to photographs and lend nuances to what essentially underlies any photography theory — that is, the relationship of the image to the real world and how we conceive what that means. Diverse in its scope and themes, The Routledge Companion to Photography Theory is an indispensable collection of essays and interviews for students, researchers, and teachers. The volume also features extensive images, including beautiful colour plates of key photographs.