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Archiving the Unspeakable - Silence, Memory, and the Photographic Record in Cambodia (Paperback)
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Archiving the Unspeakable - Silence, Memory, and the Photographic Record in Cambodia (Paperback)
Series: Critical Human Rights
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Roughly 1.7 million people died in Cambodia from untreated disease,
starvation, and execution during the Khmer Rouge reign of less than
four years in the late 1970s. The regime's brutality has come to be
symbolized by the multitude of black-and-white mug shots of
prisoners taken at the notorious Tuol Sleng prison, where thousands
of "enemies of the state" were tortured before being sent to the
Killing Fields. In "Archiving the Unspeakable," Michelle Caswell
traces the social life of these photographic records through the
lens of archival studies and elucidates how, paradoxically, they
have become agents of silence and witnessing, human rights and
injustice as they are deployed at various moments in time and
space. From their creation as Khmer Rouge administrative records to
their transformation beginning in 1979 into museum displays,
archival collections, and databases, the mug shots are key
components in an ongoing drama of unimaginable human suffering.
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