Altars of Ammo: Catholic Materiality and the Visual Culture of World War II

2019 ◽  
Vol 15 (4) ◽  
pp. 401-432 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Seitz
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
Visual Culture ◽  
World War

scholarly journals The Nanking Atrocity: Still and Moving Images 1937–1944

2014 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 51-67
Author(s):  
Gary Evans
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
Public Opinion ◽  
Visual Culture ◽  
Historical Context ◽  
Visual Media ◽  
World War ◽  
Moving Images ◽  
Mass Public ◽  
Racial Context ◽  
Film Clips

This manuscript investigates the facts of publication of the images of the Nanking Atrocity (December 1937–January 1938) in <em>LIFE </em>and <em>LOOK</em> magazines, two widely read United States publications, as well as the Nanking atrocity film clips that circulated to millions more in American and Canadian newsreels some years later. The publishers of these images were continuing the art of manipulation of public opinion through multimodal visual media, aiming them especially at the less educated mass public. The text attempts to describe these brutal images in their historical context. Viewing and understanding the underlying racial context and emotive impact of these images may be useful adjuncts to future students of World War II. If it is difficult to assert how much these severe images changed public opinion, one can appreciate how the emerging visual culture was transforming the way that modern societies communicate with and direct their citizens' thoughts.

scholarly journals Interpreting Bert Hardy's photographic collection at the Art Gallery of Ontario

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Guanchen Yu
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
Visual Culture ◽  
British Society ◽  
Full Description ◽  
World War ◽  
Art Gallery ◽  
The Third ◽  
Art Gallery Of Ontario ◽  
Post War ◽  
The Relationship

This subject of this thesis is a collection of Bert Hardy photographs donated to the Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO) in 2007. Hardy (1913-1995), worked as a photojournalist for Picture Post from 1940 - 1957 during which time he covered many aspects of British life after World War II. Hardy’s contribution to British visual culture is traced in three chapters beginning with a literature survey that covers the context of his work in post-war British society. The second chapter gives a full description of the collection and further analyzes the style of Hardy’s photographs. The third chapter examines the history Picture Post and the context in which its editors worked. Looking at the the relationship between photographers and editors in the picture press, it examines how Stefan Lorant and Tom Hopkinson edited and captioned Bert Hardy’s photographs for use in the Picture Post.

scholarly journals Interpreting Bert Hardy's photographic collection at the Art Gallery of Ontario

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Guanchen Yu
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
Visual Culture ◽  
British Society ◽  
Full Description ◽  
World War ◽  
Art Gallery ◽  
The Third ◽  
Art Gallery Of Ontario ◽  
Post War ◽  
The Relationship

This subject of this thesis is a collection of Bert Hardy photographs donated to the Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO) in 2007. Hardy (1913-1995), worked as a photojournalist for Picture Post from 1940 - 1957 during which time he covered many aspects of British life after World War II. Hardy’s contribution to British visual culture is traced in three chapters beginning with a literature survey that covers the context of his work in post-war British society. The second chapter gives a full description of the collection and further analyzes the style of Hardy’s photographs. The third chapter examines the history Picture Post and the context in which its editors worked. Looking at the the relationship between photographers and editors in the picture press, it examines how Stefan Lorant and Tom Hopkinson edited and captioned Bert Hardy’s photographs for use in the Picture Post.

scholarly journals The Nanking Atrocity: Still and Moving Images 1937–1944

2014 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 55-71
Author(s):  
Gary Evans
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
Public Opinion ◽  
Visual Culture ◽  
Historical Context ◽  
Visual Media ◽  
World War ◽  
Moving Images ◽  
Mass Public ◽  
Racial Context ◽  
Film Clips

This manuscript investigates the facts of publication of the images of the Nanking Atrocity (December 1937–January 1938) in LIFE and LOOK magazines, two widely read United States publications, as well as the Nanking atrocity film clips that circulated to millions more in American and Canadian newsreels some years later. The publishers of these images were continuing the art of manipulation of public opinion through multimodal visual media, aiming them especially at the less educated mass public. The text attempts to describe these brutal images in their historical context. Viewing and understanding the underlying racial context and emotive impact of these images may be useful adjuncts to future students of World War II. If it is difficult to assert how much these severe images changed public opinion, one can appreciate how the emerging visual culture was transforming the way that modern societies communicate with and direct their citizens' thoughts.

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