Conflicting Images

Stuart Allan is Professor in the School of Journalism, Media and Culture at Cardiff University, UK. He has published widely, including his editorship of The Routledge Companion to News and Journalism (second edition, 2023). His research interests in war, conflict, and crisis reporting often prioritise visual dimensions, inclusive of contributions from professionals and citizens alike.Tom Allbeson is a Senior Lecturer in Media History at the School of Journalism, Media and Culture at Cardiff University, UK. He is also co-editor of the Journal of War and Culture Studies. His research concerns photojournalism and conflict, visual culture and postwar reconstruction, and collective memory in post-conflict societies.

• List of FiguresIntroduction: The In/visibilities of War PhotographyPart I: The Emergence of War Photography in the Nineteenth Century1. Photographic Dispatches from the Frontline2. Configurations of the ‘War Photographer’Part II: Twentieth-Century Conflicts and the Age of Photojournalism3. Imperialism, Officialdom, and Human Interest in the First World War4. The Emergence of Photojournalism in a Revolutionary Era5. Photojournalism Mobilised: The Allied War Effort in the Second World War6. Concerned Photographers between Decolonial Violence and Cold War Conflict 7. Re-Assertive Militaries and Self-Reflective Media at Century’s EndPart III: Digital Conflict Imagery in the Twenty-First Century8. Digital Visions of the September 11 Attacks and the ‘War on Terror’9. The ‘Visual Doctrine’ of War Photography in Iraq10. Citizen Imagery of Asymmetric Warfare11. Visual Evidence and the Precarities of War PhotographyReferencesIndex