The violence of colonial photography

Repulsion, erasure, and loss of contrast

Photography as power : force and counterforce

Depths of field : darkrooms and conflicts prior to the 1890s

Conflicts in the lens : from the 1890s to the first world war

The public and the private : regimes of visibility

Subversion, denunciation, and manipulation

The enemy's body

Paper cemeteries

Invisible wars? reflections of extra-European conflicts in France and Britain.

List of figures

Foreword

Acknowledgements

Note on translation

Introduction

1. Repulsion, erasure, and loss of contrast

2. Photography as power : force and counterforce

3. Depths of field : darkrooms and conflicts prior to the 1890s

4. Conflicts in the lens : from the 1890s to the First World War

5. The public and the private : regimes of visibility

6. Subversion, denunciation, and manipulation

7. The enemy's body

8. Paper cemeteries

9. Invisible wars? : reflections of extra-European conflicts in France and Britain

Conclusion: ceci n'est pas une illustration

Notes

Selected bibliography

Index