Warring visions : photography and Vietnam /

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Author / Creator:Phu, Thy, 1975- author.
Imprint:Durham : Duke University Press, 2022.
©2022
Description:viii, 237 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 23 cm
Language:English
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12736982
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ISBN:9781478010364
1478010363
9781478010753
1478010754
9781478012917
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:"In Warring Visions, Thy Phu explores photography from dispersed communities throughout Vietnam and the Vietnamese diaspora, both during and after the Vietnam War, to complicate narratives of conflict and memory. While the visual history of the Vietnam War has been dominated by American documentaries and war photography, Phu turns to photographs circulated by the Vietnamese themselves, capturing a range of subjects, occasions, and perspectives. Phu's concept of warring visions refers to contrasts in the use of war photos in North Vietnam, which highlighted national liberation and aligned itself with an international audience, and those in South Vietnam, which focused on family and everyday survival. Phu also uses warring visions to enlarge the category of war photography, a genre that usually consists of images illustrating the immediacy of combat and the spectacle of violence, pain, and wounded bodies. She pushes this genre beyond such definitions by analyzing pictures of family life, weddings, and other quotidian scenes of life during the war. Phu thus expands our understanding of how war is waged, experienced, and resolved"--
Other form:Online version: Phu, Thy, 1975- Warring visions. Durham : Duke University Press, 2021 9781478012917

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