JULIAN STALLABRASS - KILLING FOR SHOW

Julian Stallabrassis a writer, photographer, curator and lecturer. He is professor in art history at the Courtauld Institute of Art and is the author of Art Incorporated(2004), Internet Art: The Online Clash Between Culture and Commerce(2003), Paris Pictured(2002), High Art Lite: British Art in the 1990s(1999) and Gargantua: Manufactured Mass Culture(1996). He curated the 2008 Brighton Photo Biennial, Memory of Fire: Images of War and the War of Images and edited an associated book, also called Memory of Fire(2013). His edited reader, Documentary, for the MIT/Whitechapel Documents of Contemporary Art also appeared in 2013.

He has also co-edited Ground Control: Technology and Utopia(1997), Occupational Hazard: Critical Writing on Recent British Art(1998), Locus Solus: Technology, Identity and Site in Contemporary Art(1999) and Red Art: New Utopias in Data Capitalism(2014). He has written art criticism regularly for publications which include Artforum, The London Review of Books, Art Monthlyand the New Statesman. He has also written and presented TV series on aspects of art history for Tariq Ali TV. He has shown his photographic work at various exhibitions, most recently at the Fourth International Mardin Biennial, Beyond Words, in 2018, and at the Thessaloniki PhotoBiennale, Capitalist Realism: Future Perfect, Thessaloniki Museum of Photography in 2019.

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Names: Stallabrass, Julian, author.

Title: Killing for show : photography, war, and the media in Vietnam and Iraq / Julian Stallabrass.

Description: Lanham, Maryland : Rowman & Littlefield, 2020. | Includes bibliographical references and index. | Summary: "Stallabrass shows how photographs have become a vital weapon in the modern war: as propaganda-from close-quarters fighting to the drone's electronic vision-as well as a witness to the barbarity of events such as the My Lai massacre, the violent suppression of insurgent Fallujah or the atrocities in Abu Ghraib" Provided by publisher.

Identifiers: LCCN 2020028038 (print) | LCCN 2020028039 (ebook) | ISBN 9781538141809 (cloth) | ISBN 9781538141816 (epub)

Subjects: LCSH: War photography. | Vietnam War, 1961-1975Photography. | Iraq War, 2003-2011Photography. | Vietnam War, 1961-1975Mass media and the war. | Iraq War, 2003-2011Mass media and the war. | WarPress coverageUnited States.

Classification: LCC TR820.6 .S73 2020 (print) | LCC TR820.6 (ebook) | DDC 770.9597dc23

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