...This chapter is concerned with issues surrounding documentary photography of atrocities and art based on such images. It begins with a critical account of the controversy surrounding the 2001 exhibition in Paris of photographs of Nazi concentration and death camps. Some critics condemned...

...This chapter examines Jean Toche's 2009 exhibition Impressions from the Rogue Bush Imperial Presidency, seen as an indictment of the deceitful, empire-building Bush administration and how it operated with criminal villainy. Documentary photography bears witness to moments...

... “nucleography” for the unparalleled visual traces of the bomb's light, “nucleographic” for documentary photographs of the nuclear age, and “nucleocide” for that war that is its legacy. It also considers documentary photography as a branch of nucleography. atomic bombs Brixner Berlyn Hiroshima Japan...