213 (Winter 2013): 14. Work on politics and art expands the discursive frames within which politics unfolds, thus paving the way to new forms of political activity, and reveals the limitations and biases of established forms of social research. (88) Susie Linfield, The Cruel Radiance: Photography and Political Violence (Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2010), 217. This misunderstanding, however, prepares the ground for one of aftermath photography’s most important political tasks: to visualize that for many people suffering is not over once the use of physical force has stopped.160 A second important political task of aftermath photography—offering a vision of peace—has not yet entered the photographic discourse and photographic practice except in exploratory and rather rudimentary form, often indicating rather shallow conceptualizations and understandings of peace, war, and conflict. Michel Foucault, for example, argues that “it is in vain that we say what we see; what we see never resides in what we say.”76 Jae Emerling states that “one never sees what one says, and vice versa.”77 Writing or talking about images, then, can never adequately represent what one sees; like every translation, it is the invention of something new. (32) (75) She is an Irish painter and performance artist who graduated from the National College of Art and Design in 1983 and went on to complete a Masters degree in Equality Studies from University College Dublin. Emphasis on ambivalence and openness implies that captions, specifying what a given image shows and aiming to rescue this image from irrelevance, are problematic with regard to this photography. See, for example, Pieter Hugo, Permanent Error (Munich, London, New York: Prestel, 2011); Sebastião Salgado, Africa (Cologne: Taschen, 2010); Hugo and Melvern, Rwanda 2004. (108) The editor in chief of the British Journal of Photography recently wrote: “Now we live in the digital present, connecting online as global communities; communicating via vast, interlinked networks that bypass geographical, economic, and sociopolitical boundaries; using photographs where common languages don’t exist.”215 Who is this “we?” Is photography a “common language?” How can it be a common language when its interpretation is context and culture dependent? Danchev, On Art and War and Terror, 4. (97) There is a critical ingredient, and there is a moral ingredient, in much artistic work and also in many studies on politics and art. It may visualize the replacement of experiences of violent change with expectations of peaceful change while simultaneously acknowledging that this is not a linear process, but rather one characterized by ups and downs, progression and regression. Alex Danchev and Debbie Lisle, “Introduction: Art, Politics, Purpose,” Review of International Studies 35, no. Charles Weber and Johan Galtung (London and New York: Routledge, 2007), 188. Roberts, Photography and Its Violations, 4. It is for this reason that some authors, while acknowledging that photography is violent, insist that this violence is not only inevitable but necessary. After all, aftermath photography visualizes the end of the use of physical force. Kia Lindroos and Frank Möller (Leverkusen, Germany: Barbara Budrich Publishers, forthcoming). (4) The truth of the victim is what matters, and it is the photographer’s task to make this truth visible even if the visualization violates the victim’s dignity. It is arguable that in such cases, connotations and designations of meaning other than those intended by the photographer and the subject have to be marginalized by means of captions or other written explanations. What I am offering in this contribution is neither an intellectual nor a disciplinary history of work in political science (loosely defined) on art and aesthetics,25 nor yet another defense of such work. It is a balancing act trying to reconcile the interests of the subjects depicted—for example, to be recognized as a victim without being reduced to a victim—and the interests of viewers who want to be addressed as autonomous subjects. He asks: For example, how is revealing the “thing itself” of the interethnic violence in Rwanda in the 1990s respectful, helpful, or protective of those who were butchered? What it reveals exactly to individual viewers has to be analyzed. MacDougall, Transcultural Cinema, 68. Interpretive openness is not always appreciated. 1 (2011): 51–74. E. Ann Kaplan, Trauma Culture: The Politics of Terror and Loss in Media and Literature (New Brunswick, NJ, and London: Rutgers University Press, 2005), 21. Alex Danchev posits that “art articulates a vision of the world that is insightful and consequential; and the vision and the insight can be analyzed.”29 From this statement, three questions follow. We saw ourselves just shine.118. B. Tauris, 2014 ), 53 (emphasis added). For example, Fred Ritchin refers to an aerial view of the World Trade Center taken months before the attacks on September 11, 2001, “showing the Towers as if in heavenly repose—peaceful reflection on what was no more.”179 His interpretation, however, is unlikely to be shared by those people for whom the Twin Towers symbolized structural violence: economic inequality, the North-South divide, arrogance of power, and forms of institutionalized exploitation inherent in global politico-economic structures. (28) Participatory projects offer many possibilities to do this (within limits). In the course of the project, the subject moves from being a subject to being a co-artist, exerting much more influence on the way he or she gets represented than can normally be observed in photojournalism. (143) Copyright 2021 Leaf Group Ltd. / Leaf Group Media, All Rights Reserved. 1990. © Oxford University Press, 2018. Meaningfully, because in principle, every photographic work can discursively be constructed as peace photography. The violence inherent in the act of looking at a photograph of a person committing a murder is different from the violence inherent in the act of photographing a person committing a murder. Caroline Brothers, War and Photography: A Cultural History (London and New York: Routledge, 1997); David D. Perlmutter, Visions of War: Picturing Warfare from the Stone Age to the Cyber Age (New York: St. Martin’s Griffin, 1999); Allen Feldman, “Violence and Vision: The Prosthetics and Aesthetics of Terror,” in Violence and Subjectivity, ed. Visual representations of peace in journalism and the visual arts most often reference peace negatively: by depicting its absence; by showing war, violence, and destruction realistically (within the limits of visual representation) in order to trigger opposition to war; and by intervening photographically in violent situations so that others can intervene in the conditions depicted with other, nonphotographic, and supposedly more effective means. There are four main aspects and functions of political art: sociopolitical expression, propaganda, protest and satire. Still, many critics focusing on exploitation and subjugation seem to underestimate the importance of such projects to local people, and this importance stems from two factors: visibility (connected with hope; hope, however, can be frustrated) and participation. Mark Reinhardt, Holly Edwards and Erina Duganne (Williamsburg/Chicago: Williams College Museum of Art/The University of Chicago Press, 2007), 21. Not only did i… For photographs to accuse, and possibly to alter conduct, they must shock.”102 (“Shock can wear off,” however.103) Even without evidence, the notion of “compassion fatigue” has become a standard ingredient of the photographic discourse, routinely rehearsed and taken for granted in connection with all sorts of images.104 More fundamentally, some authors argue that compassion is “a trap. Bal specifies: Beauty distracts, and worse, it gives pleasure—a pleasure that is parasitical on the pain of others. Many aftermath projects are indeed characterized by a photographer’s long-term engagement with his or her subject. Social science disregards its (over-)reliance on specific forms of analysis alleged to be systematic, rigorous, and often quantitative, coupled with verification or falsification of hypotheses and ostensibly decoupled from the subjective position of the person who is doing the analysis. (210) Mirzoeff, Watching Babylon, 117–171. (36) One possible approach to peace photography would be to focus on the visualization of the evolution from aftermath of war to prelude to peace. (13) See also Jill Bennett, Empathic Visions: Affect, Trauma, and Contemporary Art (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2005). (130) The submission was a test probing the boundaries of the very definition of art. The task of Identity Politics is to do just this - to reclaim artistic endeavor from the clutches of the white, male, western dominated establishment and shake it up for the viewing public, and artists have found a number of ingenious and provocative and ways to … Elkins, What Photography Is, 114–115. We saw ourselves shining in all our specificity. (51) For example, photographer James Nachtwey, who regularly publishes photographs of human suffering without explanatory texts, has been criticized for so doing. Abigail Solomon-Godeau, Photography at the Dock: Essays on Photographic History, Institutions, and Practices, foreword by Linda Nochlin (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2003), 176. (7) You could not be signed in, please check and try again. (33) Under the terms of the licence agreement, an individual user may print out a PDF of a single chapter of a title in Oxford Handbooks Online for personal use (for details see Privacy Policy and Legal Notice). Its main purpose is not to be aesthetically appealing (although very often it is). David Levi Strauss, Between the Eyes: Essays on Photography and Politics. Given the absence of a universal understanding of, and the impossibility of a neutral, unpolitical approach to, peace, any conceptual approach to peace photography reflects the culture within which it is being developed and can claim validity only within this culture. After all, the images drones and CCTV cameras produce hardly qualify as art. (179) (James Der Derian and Michael J. Shapiro, eds., International/Intertextual Relations: Postmodern Readings of World Politics (Lexington and Toronto: Lexington Books, 1989). Cristina Demaria and Colin Wright (London: Zoilus Press, 2006), 15. In the digital age, many more images are being produced than ever before. Few images, it seems, do not pose a problem; many do. Martha Rosler, “The Bowery in Two Inadequate Descriptive Systems: In, Around, and Afterthoughts (on Documentary Photography),” in 3 Works (Halifax: Press of the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, 2006), 77. [The photographer] would let us bloom in the safe zone before his camera, and we saw ourselves differently through his lenses. Such photography would at the same time be linked with and decoupled from preceding violence, the existence of which it nevertheless acknowledges. Furthermore, beautiful photographs are alleged to direct attention away from the conditions depicted in a given image toward the technical brilliance and sophistication of the photographer, thus effectively depoliticizing the conditions depicted. The third section also is divided into three parts: from aftermath to peace, artivism and participation, and memory remix. Ekkehard Krippendorff, Staat und Krieg: Die historische Logik politischer Unvernunft (Frankfurt: Suhrkamp, 1985), 296–299 and 406–411. Where is it being shown? “The social-relational content of the photograph is not simply descriptive-historical, but affective and empathic: in short, it provides an emotional ‘hold.’”71 Questions pertaining to emotive and affective dimensions of the visual experience, however, are notoriously difficult to grasp; hence the tendency in liberal thought to declare the affective dimensions of art “personal matters.” This designation has the additional benefits of depoliticizing emotions and strengthening liberal politics by excluding those from full participation who are alleged to be less rational and more emotive.72. This assessment reflects an extended understanding of violence, decoupled from mere physical force and close to cultural violence.114 It is said, for example, that the act of taking a photograph of someone equals an act of violation: to “photograph people is to violate them, by seeing them as they never see themselves, by having knowledge of them they can never have; it turns people into objects that can be symbolically possessed.”115 However, why does seeing people “as they never see themselves” constitute an act of violence? Art and the individual. There is “a measure of indeterminacy in moving from the text ‘in itself’ (as analyzed by the critic) to how it is actually read.”61 Audience analysis, however, is largely absent from work on politics and art in political science. (140) African art and Europe. This mistrust is neither entirely justified nor entirely logical, as it emphasizes the quantitative dimension of image production at the expense of qualitative considerations: just because there are more images than individuals can deal with—and there have always been more images than individuals could deal with—does not mean that it is impossible for individuals to engage with selected images; it is a choice, and this choice often reflects the quality of images. B. Tauris, 2014), 87. The production and distribution of images may be more democratic than before, but it does not follow that each and every person worldwide would equally participate in image making and dissemination. Michael J. Shapiro, War Crimes, Atrocity, and Justice (Cambridge and Malden, MA: Polity Press, 2015), 10. Ernst van Alphen, Art in Mind: How Contemporary Images Shape Thought (Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2005). (126) Buckley, “Workshop of Filthy Creation,” 838. . A strong relationship between the arts and politics, particularly between various kinds of art and power, occurs across historical epochs and cultures. 3 (2010): 299–309. Some of the women acknowledge that they are suffering from unfavorable living conditions, but as one woman living in a neighborhood of Nairobi, Kenya, puts it: “I am very happy that this project shows how the women here are suffering and how they carry on their daily lives despite their problems. (182) “Securitization, Militarization, and Visual Culture in the Worlds of Post-9/11,” special issue, Ben O’Loughlin, “Images as Weapons of War: Representation, Mediation and Interpretation,”, Bleiker, “Pluralist Methods for Visual Global Politics,”, Lene Hansen, “How Images Make World Politics: International Icons and the Case of Abu Ghraib,”, Nancy S. Love and Mark Mattern, “Introduction: Art, Culture, Democracy,” in, Colin Wright, “Media Representations of 9/11: Constructing the Different Difference,” in, Terry Nardin and Daniel J. Sherman, Introduction to, Brian Wallis, “Recovering the Mexican Suitcase,” in, Maria João Guardão, “Tratado da invisibilidade,”, David Campbell, “The Myth of Compassion Fatigue,” in, Sharon Sliwinski, “A Painful Labour: Responsibility and Photography,” V, Frank Möller, “The Looking/Not Looking dilemma,”, Debbie Lisle, “The Surprising Detritus of Leisure: Encountering the Late Photography of War,”. Indeed, there can be observed a “blurring of genre boundaries,”5 which makes insistence on established typologies seem anachronistic. Tauris, 2014), 97–124. 91 (May 2015): 38. João Louro, as quoted in Maria João Guardão, “Tratado da invisibilidade,” Up Magazine, no. The very basic concept of politics involves the norms of “social relationship and power”… Poetry, literature, and other humanistic disciplines tell us much about the human condition, but they are not designed to explain global war or Third World poverty, and as such if we want to solve those problems our best hope, slim as it may be, is social science.34, To privilege a specific way of doing things necessarily means marginalizing, by means of epistemic downgrading, other forms of inquiry; the knowledge thus produced cannot but be limited. Philip Gourevitch and Errol Morris, Standard Operating Procedure: A War Story (London: Picador, 2009), 195–196. Jay Prosser, Light in the Dark Room: Photography and Loss (Minneapolis and London: University of Minnesota Press, 2005), p. 90. (58) (85) Pearl Cleage Polk’s assessment reflects, I think, what David MacDougall had in mind when he wrote that photographs cannot but show the commonalities of being human, regardless of the photographer’s intention. (218) Africa remix is part of a larger trend to address African photography—and to address Africa photographically—in terms of African subjectivity, self-determination, and self-representation.205 In part, this photography engages with the colonial past and the post(neo-)colonial present; in part, it playfully and skillfully interrogates stereotypical colonial objectifications, thus offering “a counter-modernist and interrogative re-working of these photographic conventions”206; in part it presents counter-visualizations insisting on the non-reducibility of the African subject to the colonial experience; in part it “searches through the remainders of the colonial and postcolonial past to question the emancipatory philosophy and utopianism of decolonization”207; and in part it tries to escape from the shadow of distorted memories so as not to become entangled in the past. Frank Möller, Visual Peace: Images, Spectatorship and the Politics of Violence (Houndmills, UK: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013), 123. Sharon Sliwinski, “A Painful Labour: Responsibility and Photography,” Visual Studies 19, no. Don McCullin, in Kontaktabzüge: Die Große Tradition der Fotoreportage—Don McCullin, dir. (203) Regarding such photographs may seem to be looking at photographs of peace (at least in comparison to what came later). Their work, therefore, often expresses viewpoints about society, including its politics and government. (24) First, being an agent of their own image is important because, based on a belief in the power of the visible, it gives the subjects the chance to present their points of view; to break with visual stigmatization and routinized patterns of representation; to transform representation into self-representation; and to confront viewers with unexpected images, thus potentially altering the ways the subjects depicted are seen by others. (62) (London, Thousand Oaks, CA, and New Delhi: Sage, 2012). 1, The History (New York: International Center of Photography/Göttingen: Steidl, 2010), 13–17. Barbie Zelizer, Remembering to Forget: Holocaust Memory through the Camera’s Eye (Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1998), 218. (129) What is photography?6 These are profoundly political questions in connection with visual politics in general and the politics of photography in particular.7 Indeed, “How we now—today—understand what photography is and how it works tells us something about how we understand anything. I want to address you not only as reader but also as viewer, to invite you to make your own visual investigation by visiting the website referenced above or http://africandigitalart.com to have your own visual experience rather than listening to what I have to say about these images. These reinterpretations help reveal existing power relations within society, determining what previously was known and what was deemed worthy of analysis in the first place and identifying what previously was not seen and—therefore?—not known, including identification of what should be seen or known. Bal, “Pain of Images,” 108, n35. David Simpson, 9/11: The Culture of Commemoration (Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2006), p. 3. (169) Lisle, “Surprising Detritus of Leisure,” 879. However—and this complicates the notion of violence—as was observed at that time by Pearl Cleage Polk when she was photographed: He would take our pictures and let us see that those who said we were invisible were lying. What ties bind art, power, and patronage? Cynthia Young, vol. 4 (2009): 788. Eviatar Zerubavel, Time Maps: Collective Memory and the Social Shape of the Past (Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2003). (82) Emphasis on text reflects tradition,68 but also the subordination of the visual to the written prevalent in journalism,69 whereas in art photography, skepticism about verbal explanations of the visual can be very strong.70 Emphasis on text ignores that there is something evasive in images, which cannot be grasped by means of words but has to be analyzed all the same if images are to be fully understood. Sylvain Roumette, video, ARTE Développement (2008), 3:21–3:23. Furthermore, that individual voices support this project, hoping that visibility will somehow improve their living conditions, is sociologically quite irrelevant as long as it disregards the overall political and economic configurations within which the project unfolds. Peace photography may also reference a point in time when the preceding violence stops being the single most important reference point for individuals and groups of people formerly exposed to violence. This is the currently selected item. (194) After all, the experience of watching an image cannot be decoupled from language; all media are mixed media. For example, they may be connected episodically. Primo Levi, The Drowned and the Saved, trans. (191) Claudia Mesch, Art and Politics: A Small History of Art for Social Change since 1945 (London and New York: I. This argument can often be found in work on viewers’ exposure to visual, in particular photographic, representations of human suffering. Bennett, Empathic Visions; Kaplan, Trauma Culture; Lizelle Bisschoff and Stefanie van de Peer, eds., Art and Trauma in Africa: Representations of Reconciliation in Film, Art, Music and Literature (London and New York: I. While the Protestants harshly criticized the cult of images, the Catholic Church ardently embraced the religious power of art. Lene Hansen, “Theorizing the Image for Security Studies: Visual Securitization and the Muhammad Cartoon Crisis,” European Journal of International Relations 17, no. The Nature of Justice. Nancy S. Love and Mark Mattern, “Introduction: Art, Culture, Democracy,” in Doing Democracy: Activist Art and Cultural Politics, ed. Nicholas Mirzoeff, for example, explicitly demands “utopian imagining” as “a necessary cultural response to the gloom-laden chorus that there is no alternative to the current doctrine of pre-emptive war and the politics of fear.”13 What was always includes what could have been; what is always includes the—as yet unrealized—potentialities of what could be. Art can be understood as a form of political discourse; as a descriptive, an interpretive, or an explicitly critical approximation; or as a vehicle with which to transcend the political. 191 (Summer 2008): 38. Cynthia Weber, “I Am an American”: Filming the Fear of Difference (Bristol, UK: Intellect, 2011). (172) (1) Can and will art participate in this new mandate of “change,” and if so, how? My focus in this contribution is on the visual arts, very broadly understood, including photojournalistic image production. Exclusive focus on images, while an established practice in artists’ monographs, cannot normally be found in academic writings in the social sciences characterized by emphasis on the written word; images, if used at all, often serve the purpose of illustration of what has already been established by means of text. If “we still must learn how to become spectators of images,”211 then this moment is as good as any to start this learning process. (p. 160). The present contribution, for example, follows the culture of Galtung-inspired peace research, which understands peace not only as the absence of physical violence but as “the absence of violence in all of its forms and the presence of mutually beneficial cooperation and mutual learning.”180 This is one approach to peace among others, and a rather utopian one. Such conditions can be revealed, while the identification of any given photograph as a peace photograph is always subjective and context-dependent, reflecting a given interpreter’s individual points of view; while searching for peace photographs is ultimately an empirical task, identifying the conditions of possibility for peace photography is a conceptual task. Without such a return to the image, we would “concede ground to the perpetrators of state violence and the systematic violence of the capitalist system” (p. 161) in a world dominated by images, in which what cannot be seen can easily be, and is routinely, denied. There can be no doubt that these are important political developments, shaping both the wars to come and future domestic conditions, but why are they important in connection with politics and art? Surely it matters also whether or not a subject agrees with her or his picture being taken and whether or not a subject knows what this means in a time of social media, online dissemination in real time, and numerous forms of manipulation, appropriation, and alteration. There are exceptions, however.62. Political analysis of the visual arts includes critical investigation of the connection between what is seen and what is known. Why do people take so many photographs? Why is this important? Michael J. Shapiro, Cinematic Geopolitics (London and New York: Routledge, 2009). Furthermore, for people who have nothing other than photographs to remember people they knew and loved by, photographs have an important memory- and identity-constructing purpose.203 And for people whose memories have been distorted in such violent social processes as colonialism, the reappropriation of individual and collective memories is crucial for the re-establishment of one’s peace of mind. 2 (2015): 263–288. 1 Simply look at what it does—not what it shows. Eisenman, Abu Ghraib Effect, 99. I hope this contribution is useful not only to readers with an interest in visual art and visual images but also to readers interested in the overall configurations of politics and art and to those with an interest in artistic genres other than visual ones. It is, however, problematic, as those “subjects” do not always ask artists to represent them. Any conceptual approach to peace photography is limited, but different approaches to peace photography can be discussed and compared with one another. Peter Berger and Thomas Luckmann, The Social Construction of Reality: A Treatise in the Sociology of Knowledge (London: Penguin, 1991), 134. Photography’s Alien Landscapes,”, Joseph McGonagle, “Dispelling the Myth of Invisibility: Photography and the Algerian Civil War,” in, Christine Ross, “Introduction: The Precarious Visualities of Contemporary Art and Visual Culture,” in. Mitchell, Picture Theory, 36 (emphasis added). Ethics and Images of Pain (London and New York: Routledge, 2012). Art complicates our understandings and perceptions of the world, altering the discursive frames within which the political is negotiated. Awam Ampka, “Africa: Colonial Photography and Outlaws of History,” in Africa: See You, See Me, ed. For example, Philip Jones Griffith’s Vietnam at Peace is said to have communicated primarily that Vietnam “is not yet ‘at peace’ with itself.”178. Gregory Rabassa (New York: Dial Press, 2005), 37. Ritchin, In Our Own Image, 27. Although today’s artists, from painters and sculptors to musicians and filmmakers, rely less on government as a source of support, patronage lives on in state arts organizations and federal agencies such as the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA). Roland Barthes, Image Music Text. This is not always unproblematic, but it might also be understood as a platform for discursive engagement with what we believe we see. Caitlin Patrick, “Ruins and Traces: Exhibiting Conflict in Guy Tillim’s Leopold and Mobuto,” in The Violence of the Image: Photography and International Conflict, ed. Debbie Lisle, “The Surprising Detritus of Leisure: Encountering the Late Photography of War,” Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, 2011, Vol. Sontag, Regarding the Pain of Others, 81. The cautious use of the verb “threaten” implies that beauty does not necessarily neutralize acts of violence, and Bal acknowledges that representation “does not … necessarily stylize violence away.”134 It “can also place [horror] in the foreground in novel ways that do justice to the political content.”135 If beauty is capable of either neutralizing violence or doing “justice to the political content,” then the aestheticization critique loses much of its power and has to be transformed into analysis of the conditions in which beauty neutralizes violence as opposed to those in which it does not. 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