Introduction Photos are just as crucial as journals and diaries when it comes to educating on, and comprehending, history. The bibliography that follows covers books outlining key elements of photography in the form of war publicity, memoire and a representation of war-time cruelties and realities.

Zarzycka, Marta. Gendered Tropes in War Photography: Mothers, Mourners, Soldiers. 2017.

· Zarzycka questions the framework as well as propagation of modern experiences of war, dissent and brutality. It is of interest to experts and advanced pupils in the fields of visual studies, gender studies, cultural studies, memory and trauma studies, cultural anthropology, media studies, and photography theory. Most especially for this book, the author has cut out class-based, ethnic, racial, national, gender-based, religious, and citizenship status-based groups and replaced them with photographic tropes that accord a combined status to heroism and victimhood at war despite war regimes primarily operating based on the above groupings. Females in the form of a photographic trope represent an emblematic indicator of an earlier established account that primes audiences towards specific inflexible stereotypes and discussion examples.

Morris, Errol. Believing Is Seeing: (Observations on the Mysteries of Photography). New York: Penguin Group, 2014.

· Morris’s work examines the mysteries surrounding a few...

The author has delved into the facts underlying various documentary photos all through the course of history, debating the association of photographs with what they apparently signify, taking into account the American Civil War, the 1853-56 Crimean war, and Abu Ghraib. The book explores actuality and photographs (captioning deceit and propaganda).
Roberts, Claire. Photography and China. 2013.

· This book’s interrelated chapters and marvelously-juxtaposed images facilitate an exploration of Chinese pictures from the perspective of Chinese photographers. The author demonstrates the many means whereby these photos have, for long, communicated with the nation’s people, in addition to their relation to foreign trends. According to the author, photography contributes significantly to creating as well as reflecting societal past-present conflict in the face of intense technological and political evolution. The 4th chapter of the book teems with discussions of revolution and war, akin to the nation itself. The author reveals photographers’ expression of increasing cognizance of both prior burdens and potential future dislodgments and upheavals post-4th June, 1989.

Henneman, Inge, Maureen Magerman, Gita Deneckere, Bruno de Wever, and Johan Pas. Shooting Range: Photography & the Great War. Antwerp: FoMu, FotoMuseum, 2014.

· This lengthy work by…