Preface: The Black book -- Part 1: Polemics. A little history of photography criticism; or, Why do photography critics hate photography? ; Photojournalism and human rights: the calamity of the Kodak -- Part 2: Places. Warsaw, Łódź, Auschwitz: in the waiting room of death ; China: from Malraux's dignity to the Red Guards' shame ; Sierra Leone: beyond the sorrow and the pity ; Abu Ghraib and the jihad: the dance of civilizations -- Part 3: People. Robert Capa: the optimist ; James Nachtwey: the catastrophist ; Gilles Peress: the skeptic
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Susie Linfield addresses the issue of whether photographs depicting past scenes of violence & cruelty are voyeuristic, arguing that if we do not look & understand that we are seeing at people, rather than depersonalised acts of inhumanity, our hopes of curbing political violence today are probably limited