Humanitarian Photography

Heide Fehrenbach is Board of Trustees Professor and Distinguished Research Professor in the history department at Northern Illinois University. She is the author of three books: Cinema in Democratizing Germany, Race after Hitler: Black Occupation Children in Postwar Germany and America and After the Nazi Racial State: Difference and Democracy in Germany and Europe (with Rita Chin, Geoff Eley, and Atina Grossmann). She is also co-editor, with Uta Poiger, of Transactions, Transgressions, Transformations: American Culture in Western Europe and Japan (2000). Davide Rodogno is Professor of International History at the Graduate Institute of International and Developmental Studies in Geneva, Switzerland. His books include Fascism's European Empire, Against Massacre: Humanitarian Interventions in the Ottoman Empire, 1815–1914, and, as co-editor, Shaping the Transnational Sphere: Transnational Networks of Experts in the Long Nineteenth Century.

• Introduction. The morality of sight: humanitarian photography in history Heide Fehrenbach and Davide Rogodno; 1. Picturing pain: evangelicals and the politics of pictorial humanitarianism in an imperial age Heather Curtis; 2. Framing atrocity: photography and humanitarianism Christina Twomey; 3. The limits of exposure: atrocity photographs in the Congo reform campaign Kevin Grant; 4. Photography, visual culture, and the Armenian genocide Peter Balakian; 5. Developing the humanitarian image in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century China Caroline Reeves; 6. Photography, cinema, and the quest for influence: the international committee of the Red Cross in the wake of the first world war Francesca Piana; 7. Children and other civilians: photography and the politics of humanitarian image-making Heide Fehrenbach; 8. Sights of benevolence: UNRRA's recipients portrayed Silvia Salvatici; 9. All the world loves a picture: the World Health Organization's visual politics, 1948–73 Thomas David and Davide Rodogno; 10. 'A' as in Auschwitz, 'B' as in Biafra: the Nigerian civil war, visual narratives of genocide, and the fragmented universalization of the Holocaust Lasse Heerten; 11. Finding the right image: British development NGOs and the regulation of imagery Henrietta Lidchi; 12. Dilemmas of ethical practice in the production of contemporary humanitarian photography Sanna Nissinen.

'This beautifully edited volume shows how absolutely central visual culture must be to our understanding of modern humanitarianism. Whether on atrocity, famine, or genocide, these essays explore photography's enduring power to shape the moral and political dynamics of international crises.' J. P. Daughton, Stanford University