Includes bibliographical references (pages 249-268) and index.
1. Photography, theory, history. -- Part I. Propaganda and myth: the combatants. -- 2. The republican militiamen. -- 3. Insurgent soldiers and moors. -- 4. Women-at-arms. -- Part 2. The elusive ideal: the civilians. -- 5. Semiology and the city at war. -- 6. The anthropology of civilian life. -- Part III. Taboo, anxiety and fascination: the victims. -- 7. Refugees and the limitations of documentary. -- 8. Casualties and the nature of photographic evidence. -- 9. If not about Spain ... 1930s Britain and France. -- 10. Vietnam, the Falklands, the Gulf: photography in the age of the simulacral.