Picturing atrocity : photography in crisis / edited by Geoffrey Batchen, Mick Gidley, Nancy K. Miller ; Jay Prosser, principal editor.

Includes bibliographical references.

Response and responsibility -- Words can kill : Haiti and the vocabulary of disaster / Rebecca Solnit -- Visible and invisible scars of Wounded Knee / Mick Gidley -- Severed hands : authenticating atrocity in the Congo, 1904-13 / Christina Twomey -- Atrocity and action : the performative force of the Abu Ghraib photographs / Peggy Phelan -- Becoming iconic -- Photographing atrocity : becoming iconic? / Griselda Pollock -- Iconography of famine / David Campbell -- A single image of famine in China / D.J. Clark -- History at a standstill : agency and gender in the image of civil rights / Elizabeth Abel -- Photographing atrocity -- Body on a hillside / Susan Meiselas -- Crossfire / Shahidul Alam -- Circulation and public culture -- Iconic image of the mushroom cloud and the cold war nuclear optic / Robert Hariman and John Louis Lucaites -- Girl in the photograph : the visual legacies of war / Nancy K. Miller -- Atrocity, the "as if," and impending death from the Khmer Rouge -- Falling man / Tom Junod -- Ordinary atrocities -- Street photographs in crisis : Cernăuţi, Romania, c. 1943 / Marianne Hirsch and Leo Spitzer -- Picturing the perpetrator / Paul Lowe -- War trophy photographs : proof or pornography? / Hilary Roberts -- Picturing an "ordinary atrocity" : the Sharpeville massacre / Darren Newbury -- Atrocity askance -- Looking askance / Geoffrey Batchen -- Documentary pictorial : Luc Delahaye's Taliban, 2001 / Mark Durden -- Execution portrait / Ariella Azoulay -- Toward a hyperphotography / Fred Ritchin -- Afterlife of photographs -- Lament of the images / Alfredo Jaar and David Levi Strauss -- Photographic interference / Lorie Novak.