https://booksandideas.net// Books & Ideas is the English-language mirror website of La Vie des Idées, a free online journal which has gained a large readership and established itself in France as a major place for intellectual debate since 2007. en SPIP - www.spip.net https://booksandideas.net/local/cache-vignettes/L144xH68/siteon0-04014.png?1675949311 https://booksandideas.net// 68 144 https://booksandideas.net/Snapshots-of-colonial-violence https://booksandideas.net/Snapshots-of-colonial-violence 2023-05-11T06:47:00Z text/html en Frédéric Rousseau History Colonialism violence state-crime photography Cairn.info <p>Like machine guns, Kodak cameras make it possible to celebrate Western “modernity”. But to what extent do the photographs show European violence in Africa and Asia?</p> https://booksandideas.net/From-the-Daguerreotype-to-Numerical-Photography https://booksandideas.net/From-the-Daguerreotype-to-Numerical-Photography 2016-09-22T07:00:00Z text/html en Adèle Cassigneul modernity nature digital photography Institut français <p>Looking at the mutations of photography since its origins, one realizes that contrary to what is often believed, it exalts artificiality, fiction and imagination and relies on an anti-naturalistic aesthetic. Could the 19<sup class="typo_exposants">th</sup> century be the matrix of our artistic modernity?</p> https://booksandideas.net/The-Power-of-Images https://booksandideas.net/The-Power-of-Images 2012-07-29T22:56:51Z text/html en Cristelle Terroni Arts anthropology images cinema art literature photography <p>How do images shape our worldview ? What do their study bring to our understanding of society ? Through interviews, essays and reviews this dossier shows how the close study of still or moving images has become central to the social sciences. From anthropology to history or literature, taking into account the overwhelming presence of visual representation yields unexpected and original information about human, social and political relationships.</p> https://booksandideas.net/Seeing-Double https://booksandideas.net/Seeing-Double 2010-09-16T13:33:20Z text/html en Gérôme Truc Arts media United States of America globalisation images la suite gauche terrorism photography history <span class="caps">FMSH</span> Cuba <p>Why is the photographic record of 9/11, the most photographed event in history, limited to an endlessly repeated loop of a handful of images? In a book as rich as it is concise, Clément Chéroux, a historian of photography and a curator at the Pompidou Center, dissects this “9/11 paradox”.</p>