War Porn
As staged collections of photographs, photobooks are part of various uses and exhibition devices because they lack direct spatial fixation. The relationship between photography and the spectator can be described as theatrical and performative, if the performativity of pictures is understood as a pro...
| Published in: | Cahiers d’Études Germaniques |
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | German |
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Presses Universitaires de Provence
2020-11-01
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| Online Access: | https://journals.openedition.org/ceg/13771 |
| Summary: | As staged collections of photographs, photobooks are part of various uses and exhibition devices because they lack direct spatial fixation. The relationship between photography and the spectator can be described as theatrical and performative, if the performativity of pictures is understood as a procedural relationship between the photograph and the spectator. Through the example of War Porn by the photographer Christoph Bangert, this article discusses how the characteristics of photography affect the spectator and how this could impact on the image’s status, between exhibition value and use. This relationship becomes crucial when photographs document the suffering of the “Other” and when questioning their presumed objectivity and authenticity also involves their very status as staged objects within performative structures. |
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| ISSN: | 0751-4239 2605-8359 |