X-Ray Vision: Women Photograph War
Abstrak
During World War I not only did technical revolutions produce a new, devastatingly “total” type of war, but they also changed the way war was seen, both from a medical and a military perspective. While the medical gaze probed the interior of bodies, the military gaze pulled away from the immediacy of the combatant’s gaze. The accompanying gender revolution placed women in new positions, both on the front line and behind the camera. Using the work of professional photographer Olive Edis this article first explores the three testimonial functions of photography concerning the photographer’s identity, tasks and physical location, before turning to the memoirs of two Red Cross workers, Florence Farmborough and Margaret Hall, which suggest that a particular war genre arose at the moment when women created scrapbooks that combined photographs with their memoirs: the “photo-text”.
Topik & Kata Kunci
Penulis (1)
Margaret R. Higonnet
Akses Cepat
- Tahun Terbit
- 2010
- Sumber Database
- DOAJ
- DOI
- 10.4000/miranda.1085
- Akses
- Open Access ✓