This research group, which consists of Jeremy Hicks, Libby Saxton and Guy Westwell, explores iconic photographs of political violence and their after-lives on film, as well as rarer instances of iconic documentary film images and their reproduction as stills.
The project seeks to situate iconic images in their originating national contexts and trace their migration into wider transnational/cosmopolitan/global spaces, paying attention to the ethical dynamics of their subject matter and viewers’ interactions with them.
The digital turn has fundamentally altered the status of the iconic image (as a way of representing the world and as an object of study), and our work seeks suitable ways of tracing, archiving, and understanding iconic images in this dramatically new context.
We seek answers to the following questions:
In addition to a co-authored dossier in Screen, publications arising from the project include:
Events related to the project include: