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0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. She asks why do soldiers create images of themselves commiting brutality?By lyndonbrechtI found this short book by accident. as I was browsing for another topic. The book looks at soldiers photographs of war. shading to phone cams and such for more recent wars such as the actions in Iraq--the author is British. so much of the consideration is material British soldiers took. Struk sees several characteristics of soldiers images of war: touristy (her phrase) shots. images of colleagues and social events. fascination with local people (especially those that are seen as "other"). military brutality and the dead. Struk is interested in why soldiers would take images of brutality. given the potential for highly negative results. such as being court-martialed. Struks personal view of the military cant easily be determined. but she seems opposed to the recent campaigns in Iraq and Afghanistan. She has written an earlier book on World War 2 German soldiers photos of atrocities.The book has a lot of interesting information. some of which is dated given the ubiquity these days of phone cams and other imaging technology that is likely vastly increasing the number and speed of such imagery (this is my assumption). Chapter 1 is primarily a discussion of the infamous Abu Ghraib (her spelling) photographs. Chapter 2 discusses World War 1 (and a little before) soldiers taking photos. apparently on a large scale despite official discouragement. Chapter 3 is titled "Telling Tales." which I found a little weak. Chapter 4. "Photographs as Resistance" is about Poland in the World War 2 era--documenting Polish resistance and what was done by the Germans. for use in the future (this also gets into the politics of the Polish in exile. those based in London and those directed by the Soviets).Chapter 5 considers how images can harm a nation. looking at those infamous German solders images. This gets tricky because some of the images that erupted in controversy in the 1990s appear to have been actually of Soviet atrocity. faked or otherwise questionable. The issue is huge for Germans in the sense that photographs document the involvement of everyday German military in atrocity. contradicting long-held assumptions that such crimes were done by Nazis. Chapter 6 examines the case of several British soldiers accused of brutality based on photos taken in Iraq. Chapter 7 discusses images documenting Israeli conduct in the occupied territory--documented by Israelis. in a chapter called "Breaking the Silence." This is likely to be the most controversial section of the book for readers.The last chapter discusses images of Iraq. including American soldiers images--she says many appear on web sites. including a sizable number of short videos made by soldiers (despite official prohibition). and a few on pornographic sites--Struk sees something of a connection between pornographic image usual formats and images of violence.
