Bøger af Julian Stallabrass

Stallabrass shows how photographs have become a vital weapon in the modern war: as propaganda-from close-quarters fighting to the drone's electronic vision-as well as a witness to the barbarity of events such as the My Lai massacre, the violent suppression of insurgent Fallujah or the atrocities in Abu Ghraib.

This is a polemic on our visual culture which raises questions about the nature and direction of mass visual culture. It demonstrates how the consistent and unifying capitalist ideology of mass culture leads to an increasingly homogeneous identity.

Every time I see a rope I remember. If the light goes out unexpectedly I am back in my cell.