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The Terrorist Image - Decoding the Islamic State's Photo-Propaganda (Hardcover)
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The Terrorist Image - Decoding the Islamic State's Photo-Propaganda (Hardcover)
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The summer of 2014--when the Islamic State seized Mosul, Iraq's
second city; captured vast swathes of eastern Syria; and declared
itself a latter-day Caliphate--marked a turning point in the
history of photography, one that pushed its already contested
relationship with reality to its very limits. Uniquely obsessed
with narrative, image management and branding, the Islamic State
used cameras as weapons in its formative years as a Caliphate. The
tens of thousands of propaganda photographs captured during this
time were used to denote policy, to navigate through defeat and,
perhaps most importantly, to construct an impossible reality: a
totalising image-world of Salafi-Jihadist symbols and myths. Based
on a deep examination of the 20,000 photographs Charlie Winter
collected from the Islamic State's covert networks online in 2017,
this book explores the process by which the Caliphate shook the
foundations of modern war photography. Focusing on the period in
which it was at its strongest, Winter identifies the implicit value
systems that underpinned the Caliphate's ideological appeal, and
evaluates its uniquely malign contribution to the history of the
photographic image. The Terrorist Image travels to the heart of
what made the Islamic State tick during its prime, providing unique
insights into its global appeal and mobilisation successes.
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