The discourses of war photography

Photojournalistic representations of the Palestinian-Israeli war

Bibliographic Data

ID6084409
AuthorsTheo Van Leeuwen, Adam Jaworski (0000-0002-9194-5725)
Year2003
Volume1
Issue2
Pages255-275
Publication date2003-07-10
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of Language and Politics (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1569-2159 • E-ISSN: 1569-9862
PublisherJohn Benjamins Publishing Company (PUBLISHER • NL)
DOI10.1075/jlp.1.2.06lee
OpenAlexW2128477852
LanguageEN
Citations received16

Photography has a long history of (de-)legitimation of wars. In this paper we examine the visual rhetoric of two newspapers, the British Guardian and the Polish Gazeta Wyborcza in their representation of the Palestinian-Israeli war in October 2000. Although both newspapers have access to the same (agency) photographs, their images differ. Both papers show the Palestinians to be the main victims of the war. However, Gazeta Wyborcza depicts the Palestinians predominantly as “terrorists” and deflects any military responsibility from the Israelis by not including any photographs of the Israeli soldiers. The Guardian shows the Palestinians predominantly as romanticised, lone heroes against the Israeli military might, although the Israeli military force is vague and de-personalised. Furthermore, both newspapers differ in their representation of the war in political terms choosing different images of local and international politicians

Agency (philosophy · Art · Guardian · Legitimation · Linguistics · Media studies · Newspaper · Photography · Photojournalism · Political science · Politics · Representation (politics · Rhetoric · Social science · Sociology · Visual arts · Memory, Trauma, and Commemoration · Rhetoric and Communication Studies · Visual Culture and Art Theory · History · Law · Philosophy

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