Paul Lowe
Biographic Data
| ID | 4005137 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Paul Lowe |
| GIVEN NAMES | Paul |
| FAMILY NAME | Lowe |
| SIGNATURE | LOWE P |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of the Arts London |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 8 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 7 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1926 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Killing Time
Even in intense combat scenarios, a significant proportion of a soldier's time is spent passing the time. Tim Hetherington was acutely aware of this contradiction; of the 240 pages of Infidel, his account of the time he spent in Combat Outpost Restrepo in the remote Afghan Korengal valley, only about one sixth show soldiers actually in combat. The remaining pages depict soldiers maintaining their base, passing the time playing cards, wrestling ea…
Reporting the Siege of Sarajevo
Drawing on detailed primary and secondary material in English and Bosnian, this book provides the first detailed account of the reporting of the Siege of Sarajevo and the role that journalists played in highlighting both military and non-military aspects of it. It also includes images from the front-line taken by co-author and award-winning photojournalist, Paul Lowe. Together Lowe and Kenneth Morrison document a relatively short but crucial peri…
Power and Representation
This chapter is concerned with the camera&s;s power to represent people, and the choices that photojournalists must make in depicting situations where they encounter difference or &s;otherness&s;. It uses examples from the history of British &s;colonial photography&s; to illustrate some of the potential pitfalls involved in the representation of race in the present day. When the power of photographic representation and its presumed transparency i…
Understanding Photojournalism
Understanding Photojournalism explores the interface between theory and practice at the heart of photojournalism, mapping out the critical questions that photojournalists and picture editors consider in their daily practice and placing these in context. Outlining the history and theory of photojournalism, this textbook explains its historical and contemporary development; who creates, selects and circulates images; and the ethics, aesthetics and …
Traces of Traces
Images of atrocity are deeply problematic, in that they potentially create a tension between form and content and are often accused of re-victimization, aesthetization of suffering, compassion fatigue and exploitation. As an alternative, therefore, there is considerable potential in examining images associated with atrocity that do not depict the actual act of violence or the victim itself, but rather depict the material presence of the spaces an…
The Siege of Sarajevo
Keywords: conflict photographySarajevoBosniawarpanorama landscape
Darwin's Chile
Understanding Photojournalism
Understanding Photojournalism explores the interface between theory and practice at the heart of photojournalism, mapping out the critical questions that photojournalists and picture editors consider in their daily practice and placing these in context. Outlining the history and theory of photojournalism, this textbook explains its historical and contemporary development; who creates, selects and circulates images; and the ethics, aesthetics and …
Darwin's Chile
The Siege of Sarajevo
Keywords: conflict photographySarajevoBosniawarpanorama landscape
Traces of Traces
Images of atrocity are deeply problematic, in that they potentially create a tension between form and content and are often accused of re-victimization, aesthetization of suffering, compassion fatigue and exploitation. As an alternative, therefore, there is considerable potential in examining images associated with atrocity that do not depict the actual act of violence or the victim itself, but rather depict the material presence of the spaces an…
Power and Representation
This chapter is concerned with the camera&s;s power to represent people, and the choices that photojournalists must make in depicting situations where they encounter difference or &s;otherness&s;. It uses examples from the history of British &s;colonial photography&s; to illustrate some of the potential pitfalls involved in the representation of race in the present day. When the power of photographic representation and its presumed transparency i…
Understanding Photojournalism
Understanding Photojournalism explores the interface between theory and practice at the heart of photojournalism, mapping out the critical questions that photojournalists and picture editors consider in their daily practice and placing these in context. Outlining the history and theory of photojournalism, this textbook explains its historical and contemporary development; who creates, selects and circulates images; and the ethics, aesthetics and …
Reporting the Siege of Sarajevo
Drawing on detailed primary and secondary material in English and Bosnian, this book provides the first detailed account of the reporting of the Siege of Sarajevo and the role that journalists played in highlighting both military and non-military aspects of it. It also includes images from the front-line taken by co-author and award-winning photojournalist, Paul Lowe. Together Lowe and Kenneth Morrison document a relatively short but crucial peri…
Killing Time
Even in intense combat scenarios, a significant proportion of a soldier's time is spent passing the time. Tim Hetherington was acutely aware of this contradiction; of the 240 pages of Infidel, his account of the time he spent in Combat Outpost Restrepo in the remote Afghan Korengal valley, only about one sixth show soldiers actually in combat. The remaining pages depict soldiers maintaining their base, passing the time playing cards, wrestling ea…
Art (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · Visual arts (3 works) · Archaeology (2 works) · Balkan and Eastern European Studies (2 works) · Balkans: History, Politics, Society (2 works) · Geography (2 works) · History (2 works) · History (2 works)