Popple, S. orcid.org/0000-0002-2997-0348 (2024) Restaging Afghanistan: Trapped in the Cycle of Conflict Photographies. Journal of War & Culture Studies, 17 (1). pp. 50-69. ISSN 1752-6272
Abstract
Western, especially British interventions in Afghanistan, parallel the long history of photography. This article examines the resulting archive and considers its ongoing influence on the traditions of conflict photography through the concept of the ‘Feedback Loop’ coined by photographer Tim Hetherington. Hetherington’s work is used as a departure point for an examination of the archival legacy of the male-gendered western gaze in ongoing western incursions. It focusses on Hetherington and contemporary practitioners to position and understand a repetitive cycle of photographic witnessing informed by the archive. Its perspective is on western traditions in the context of picturing Afghanistan and explores what underpins such traditions and how contemporary practitioners are rethinking, rememorizing and now restaging Afghanistan as a site of post-imperial ‘conflict’. It argues that what Hetherington identified as a ‘feedback loop’ is part of a much older tradition of picturing conflict and the combatants at its heart.
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2024 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. The terms on which this article has been published allow the posting of the Accepted Manuscript in a repository by the author(s) or with their consent |
Keywords: | War culture; feedback-loop; staging/restaging; late photography; imperialism; memory; destaging |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Cultures (Leeds) > School of Media & Communication (Leeds) |
Funding Information: | Funder Grant number British Academy SG130350 |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 30 May 2024 15:46 |
Last Modified: | 30 May 2024 15:46 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Informa UK Limited |
Identification Number: | 10.1080/17526272.2023.2280871 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:212950 |
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