The camera and the Red Cross
“Lamentable pictures” and conflict photography bring into focus an international movement, 1855–1865
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12853974 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Sonya De Laat (0000-0002-8203-3249, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 102 |
| Issue | 913 |
| Pages | 417-443 |
| Publication date | 2020-04-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | International Review of the Red Cross (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1607-5889 • E-ISSN: 1816-3831 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s1816383121000072 |
| OpenAlex | W3139124223 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
Henry Dunant's appeal for a neutral and impartial organization to provide care to wounded combatants aligned with growing criticism of mid-nineteenth-century European and North American conflicts. This article discusses the important convergence of Dunant's “lamentable pictures”, laid out in his Memory of Solferino , with spectators’ passionate responses to them and to battlefield photographs that circulated between 1855 and 1865. Through these images and reactions, there emerged a shared, expanded vision of humanity worth caring for, which brought into focus an international humanitarian movement
Aesthetics · Ancient history · Appeal · Art · Battlefield · Criticism · Focus (optics · Humanity · Movement (music · Photography · Political science · Visual arts · Historical Studies and Socio-cultural Analysis · History · Law
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 0,5 |
| Citation span | 2024 - 2024 (1) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |