Description
Book SynopsisThis groundbreaking interdisciplinary analysis of a wide range of practices, amateur and professional, and of previously unpublished archival material is the first thorough study of photography’s interrelationship with social movements
Table of ContentsIntroduction
Chapter I
1.1 Toute la presse est toxique: May 1968 in the mainstream French press
1.2 The Zapatistas and the media spectacle
1.3 ‘When it bleeds, it leads’: death and press photography in the anti-capitalist protests in Genoa 2001
Chapter II
2.1 The student movement of May 1968: activist photography, self-reflection and antinomies
2.2 Zapatistas, photography and the internet or winning the game of visibility
2.3 Carnival against capitalism: global days of action & photographs of resistance
Chapter III
3.1 May ’68 in the museum
3.2 The end of silence: Antonio Turok’s photographs of the Zapatistas
3.3 Joel Sternfeld’s anti-photojournalistic images of Genoa
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index
