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About This Book
Images that embody the point of view of the perpetrators of violent crimes, or their accomplices, force us to look at the pain of victims through the eyes of those who caused it. Accompanied by over sixty visuals of historically infamous violence, The Death in their Eyes goes beyond the visible aspects of images to reveal what has been left outside of the frame. Covering human abuse and humiliation at Abu Ghraib, the Auschwitz Album, religious desecration during the Spanish Civil War, an unfinished Nazi propaganda film made at the Warsaw Ghetto in the spring of 1942, and detainees at the S-21 torture center in Cambodia under the Khmer Rouge, this volume proposes a rigorous new methodology for analyzing perpetrator images, in photography and film, that continue to be used and re-appropriated in today's media.
Content warning: This book contains images of victims of murder and torture which are essential to the author's analysis.
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Table of contents
- Contents
- Figures
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: More than Images
- Part I — On Hate in Images: For a Critique Perspective of Perpetrator Images
- Chapter 1 — From Atrocity Images to Perpetrator Images: Atavisms of the Gaze
- Chapter 2 — The Visual Enunciation of Perpetrators: Proposed Analytical Methods
- Part II — Three Scenarios, Three Conflicts: The Dream of Killing Twice
- Chapter 3 — Spain, July 1936: The Martyrdom of Things, A Strange Perpetration
- Chapter 4 — Warsaw Ghetto, Spring 1942: Perpetrator Images for an Archive of Memory
- Chapter 5 — Phnom Penh, 1976–1978: Surveillance Photos and Perpetrator Images
- Epilogue: An Image for Evil
- References
- Index