Tom Allbeson
Biographic Data
| ID | 1122166 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Tom Allbeson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Tom |
| FAMILY NAME | Allbeson |
| SIGNATURE | ALLBESON T |
| AFFILIATIONS | Cardiff University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7597-9087 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 13 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Picturing Peace: Photography, Conflict Transformation, and Peacebuilding
How can photographers, curators, and editors convey narratives of peace and not just stories of war? Providing interdisciplinary and international perspectives on timely debates, Picturing Peace explores humanitarianism and visual culture, community collaboration, collective memory, and imagined futures for creating and sustaining of civil societies. How things look and are perceived are not superficial issues; when it comes to war and conflict, …
Twinned cities: Reconciliation and reconstruction in Europe after 1945 – an introduction
While town twinning has played a crucial role in reconciliation and reconstruction processes in Europe after World War II, urban historians have not yet paid sufficient attention to it. This special issue thus addresses this historiographical neglect through a set of case-studies that examine the role of twinned cities in post-war reconciliation and reconstruction between former enemy nations and across the ideological fault lines of the Cold War…
Urban internationalism: Coventry, Kiel, reconstruction and the role of cities in British–German reconciliation, 1945–1949
This article addresses the beginnings of the twinning relationship between Coventry and Kiel to introduce and exemplify the idea of ‘urban internationalism’ as a new lens onto urban histories of town twinning initiatives and a contribution to the historiography of British town twinning. Focusing on paradiplomatic initiatives by municipal officials, religious dignitaries and other citizens in Coventry and Kiel, the article examines the role that c…
Page, Print, JPEG: Researching and Curating Picture Post, its history and publics
This article discusses methodological reflections underpinning an integrated research and curation strategy addressing the history of the British magazine, Picture Post (1938-57). The dispersed Picture Post archive includes the extensive collection of negatives, prints, contact sheets, publications and daybooks held by the Hulton Archive – part of the multinational visual content provider, Getty Images. Today, however, just a handful of familiar …
Visual Histories of Postwar Reconstruction: Special Issue Introduction
This special issue interrogates the role photography played in shaping reconstruction projects around the globe from the mid-forties to the early fifties. The collected articles address contexts and topics, such as demobilization in the USSR, home-building in Australia, efforts to reassert imperial rule in Burma (now Myanmar), attempts to rehabilitate child Holocaust survivors in Britain, and understandings of DP (displaced persons) camps in the …
Domestic Archives of Empire: Photographing Burma and Reconstructing British Imperialism for the Postwar Moment
This article examines how photography documenting the military campaign in Burma was mobilized in efforts to reconstruct the image and idea of the British Empire at the end of the Second World War. It analyses a selection of popular publications which provided visual instruction for white Anglophone audiences, promoting continuing British imperialism after the Allied victory. These publications were intended to be kept for posterity, acting as ‘d…
The Business of War Photography, from the Second World War to the Cold War
This declaration of photography's apparently bellicose nature, published in the New York Times in the summer of 1862, was prompted by the stir caused by ‘Incidents of the War’, Mathew Brady's seminal photographic exhibition in New York. The albumen prints on display, depicting the aftermath of the Bull Run and battlefield casualties amongst other subjects, vividly brought the American Civil War before a mesmerized US public. Clio, as the article'…
War, Photography, Business: New Critical Histories
This article offers a critique of conventional histories of war photography, which have tended to focus on the biographies of individual renowned photojournalists or particular aesthetically striking images of conflict. We argue the need for an expanded conception of war photography which encompasses not only reportage, but numerous other uses in wartime of photographic images and technologies, from reconnaissance imagery to the application of in…
Photographic Diplomacy in the Postwar World: Unesco and the Conception of Photography as a Universal Language, 1946–1956
In the postwar decade, UNESCO aimed to create an international public sphere to secure peace. The organization made extensive use of photographs to do so, including the photographic archive of works of art and photojournalism from the ruined cities of Europe. However, photography was not simply a transparent medium for communicating internationalist ideals; it was a formative influence in shaping UNESCO's effort to build “peace in the minds of me…
Visualizing Wartime Destruction and Postwar Reconstruction: Herbert Mason's Photograph of St. Paul's Reevaluated
The View from Above: The Science of Social Space , by Jeanne Haffner
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Photographic Diplomacy in the Postwar World: Unesco and the Conception of Photography as a Universal Language, 1946–1956
In the postwar decade, UNESCO aimed to create an international public sphere to secure peace. The organization made extensive use of photographs to do so, including the photographic archive of works of art and photojournalism from the ruined cities of Europe. However, photography was not simply a transparent medium for communicating internationalist ideals; it was a formative influence in shaping UNESCO's effort to build “peace in the minds of me…
Visualizing Wartime Destruction and Postwar Reconstruction: Herbert Mason's Photograph of St. Paul's Reevaluated
War, Photography, Business: New Critical Histories
This article offers a critique of conventional histories of war photography, which have tended to focus on the biographies of individual renowned photojournalists or particular aesthetically striking images of conflict. We argue the need for an expanded conception of war photography which encompasses not only reportage, but numerous other uses in wartime of photographic images and technologies, from reconnaissance imagery to the application of in…
Urban internationalism: Coventry, Kiel, reconstruction and the role of cities in British–German reconciliation, 1945–1949
This article addresses the beginnings of the twinning relationship between Coventry and Kiel to introduce and exemplify the idea of ‘urban internationalism’ as a new lens onto urban histories of town twinning initiatives and a contribution to the historiography of British town twinning. Focusing on paradiplomatic initiatives by municipal officials, religious dignitaries and other citizens in Coventry and Kiel, the article examines the role that c…
The View from Above: The Science of Social Space , by Jeanne Haffner
e s o n, Tom 2 0 1 4. Th e vie w fro m a b ov e: Th e s ci e n c e of s o ci al s p a c e , by Je a n n e H affn e r [Book R evi e w].Hi s t o ry of P h o t o g r a p hy 3 8 (2) , p p . 2 0 6-2 0 8. 1 0 . 1 0 8 0/ 0 3 0 8 7 2 9 8. 2 0 1 4
Photographic Diplomacy in the Postwar World: Unesco and the Conception of Photography as a Universal Language, 1946–1956
In the postwar decade, UNESCO aimed to create an international public sphere to secure peace. The organization made extensive use of photographs to do so, including the photographic archive of works of art and photojournalism from the ruined cities of Europe. However, photography was not simply a transparent medium for communicating internationalist ideals; it was a formative influence in shaping UNESCO's effort to build “peace in the minds of me…
Visualizing Wartime Destruction and Postwar Reconstruction: Herbert Mason's Photograph of St. Paul's Reevaluated
The Business of War Photography, from the Second World War to the Cold War
This declaration of photography's apparently bellicose nature, published in the New York Times in the summer of 1862, was prompted by the stir caused by ‘Incidents of the War’, Mathew Brady's seminal photographic exhibition in New York. The albumen prints on display, depicting the aftermath of the Bull Run and battlefield casualties amongst other subjects, vividly brought the American Civil War before a mesmerized US public. Clio, as the article'…
War, Photography, Business: New Critical Histories
This article offers a critique of conventional histories of war photography, which have tended to focus on the biographies of individual renowned photojournalists or particular aesthetically striking images of conflict. We argue the need for an expanded conception of war photography which encompasses not only reportage, but numerous other uses in wartime of photographic images and technologies, from reconnaissance imagery to the application of in…
Page, Print, JPEG: Researching and Curating Picture Post, its history and publics
This article discusses methodological reflections underpinning an integrated research and curation strategy addressing the history of the British magazine, Picture Post (1938-57). The dispersed Picture Post archive includes the extensive collection of negatives, prints, contact sheets, publications and daybooks held by the Hulton Archive – part of the multinational visual content provider, Getty Images. Today, however, just a handful of familiar …
Visual Histories of Postwar Reconstruction: Special Issue Introduction
This special issue interrogates the role photography played in shaping reconstruction projects around the globe from the mid-forties to the early fifties. The collected articles address contexts and topics, such as demobilization in the USSR, home-building in Australia, efforts to reassert imperial rule in Burma (now Myanmar), attempts to rehabilitate child Holocaust survivors in Britain, and understandings of DP (displaced persons) camps in the …
Domestic Archives of Empire: Photographing Burma and Reconstructing British Imperialism for the Postwar Moment
This article examines how photography documenting the military campaign in Burma was mobilized in efforts to reconstruct the image and idea of the British Empire at the end of the Second World War. It analyses a selection of popular publications which provided visual instruction for white Anglophone audiences, promoting continuing British imperialism after the Allied victory. These publications were intended to be kept for posterity, acting as ‘d…
Twinned cities: Reconciliation and reconstruction in Europe after 1945 – an introduction
While town twinning has played a crucial role in reconciliation and reconstruction processes in Europe after World War II, urban historians have not yet paid sufficient attention to it. This special issue thus addresses this historiographical neglect through a set of case-studies that examine the role of twinned cities in post-war reconciliation and reconstruction between former enemy nations and across the ideological fault lines of the Cold War…
Urban internationalism: Coventry, Kiel, reconstruction and the role of cities in British–German reconciliation, 1945–1949
This article addresses the beginnings of the twinning relationship between Coventry and Kiel to introduce and exemplify the idea of ‘urban internationalism’ as a new lens onto urban histories of town twinning initiatives and a contribution to the historiography of British town twinning. Focusing on paradiplomatic initiatives by municipal officials, religious dignitaries and other citizens in Coventry and Kiel, the article examines the role that c…
Picturing Peace: Photography, Conflict Transformation, and Peacebuilding
How can photographers, curators, and editors convey narratives of peace and not just stories of war? Providing interdisciplinary and international perspectives on timely debates, Picturing Peace explores humanitarianism and visual culture, community collaboration, collective memory, and imagined futures for creating and sustaining of civil societies. How things look and are perceived are not superficial issues; when it comes to war and conflict, …
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