Pippa Oldfield

Biographic Data

ID1361147
NAMEPippa Oldfield
GIVEN NAMESPippa
FAMILY NAMEOldfield
SIGNATUREOLDFIELD P
AFFILIATIONSDurham University
ORCID0000-0002-5616-3824
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS6
TOTAL CITATIONS2
AUTHOR COUNT5
EDITOR COUNT1
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2012
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
H-INDEX1

  • Picturing Peace: Photography, Conflict Transformation, and Peacebuilding

    Tom Allbeson, Pippa Oldfield et al.BOOKPicturing Peace2025

    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, …

  • Women’s Photography and the American Civil War: The Case of Elizabeth Beachbard, Ambrotypist

    Pippa OldfieldARTICLEHistory of Photography2020

    Despite recent feminist scholarship on women’s roles in the American Civil War (1861–65), their photographic participation remains poorly understood. As a result, women’s wartime entrepreneurialism has not been recognised, and neither has their agency in shaping the image economy and visual history of a nation-defining conflict. This article presents the first dedicated research on Elizabeth Beachbard, an elusive figure who ran an ambrotype portr…

  • Argentine, Mexican and Guatemalan Photography: Feminist, Queer and Post-Masculinist Perspectives - by Foster David, William

    Open AccessPippa OldfieldARTICLEBulletin of Latin American Research2017

    Scholarship on Latin American photographic culture, still an embryonic field, has largely clustered around issues of national identity, collective memory, and the aftermath of state terrorism. Gender and sexual politics in the region, meanwhile, have received considerable attention from the humanities and social sciences, yet the role of photography remains largely overlooked. Foster's study therefore represents a most welcome contribution to the…

  • The Business of War Photography, from the Second World War to the Cold War

    Pippa Oldfield, Tom AllbesonARTICLEJournal of War and Culture Studies2016

    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

    Tom Allbeson, Pippa OldfieldARTICLEJournal of War and Culture Studies2016Cited by: 2References: 8

    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…

  • Errant Modernism: The Ethos of Photography in Mexico and Brazil - by Gabara, Esther

    Open AccessPippa OldfieldARTICLEBulletin of Latin American Research2012