Comments on: Embedded in Afghanistan

By: The elusive enemy: Looking back at the “war on terror’s” visual culture

The elusive enemy: Looking back at the “war on terror’s” visual culture — Wed, 30 Nov 2011 05:01:17 +0000

[...] is common to identify the embedding of journalists and photographers with US and allied forces as the primary reason for t…. Embedding has played a significant role in the visualisation of Afghanistan, though not from the [...]

By: War | Bijash Chauhan

War | Bijash Chauhan — Sat, 30 Jul 2011 19:47:17 +0000

[...] Embedded in Afghanistan [...]

By: The Back Catalogue (3): Images of atrocity, conflict and war | David Campbell

Mon, 13 Jun 2011 12:21:14 +0000

[...] Embedded in Afghanistan [...]

By: Vietnam, Afghanistan and the sphere of legitimate aesthetics: developing a critical photographic practice | David Campbell

Tue, 17 May 2011 12:00:48 +0000

[...] and reproduces an ‘eternal present’ obscuring the frames that narrow its perspective. Embedding is one such frame, but it is located within frames too, especially the frame of historical memory [...]

By: unum // multimedialer journalismus

unum // multimedialer journalismus — Wed, 16 Mar 2011 06:34:56 +0000

[...] embedded. Darunter waren Tyler Hicks, David Guttenfelder, Tim Hetherington und Adam Ferguson. David Campbell und Gary Knight haben damals über diese auffällige Anhäufung geschrieben. Sie haben die Frage [...]

By: The Medevac Stories, with Daniel Etter | dvafoto

The Medevac Stories, with Daniel Etter | dvafoto — Wed, 26 Jan 2011 22:31:08 +0000

[...] Tim Hetherington and Adam Ferguson. Gary Knight (on Rethink-Dispatches) and David Campbell (on his blog) wrote about this strange clustering, asking if this was due to the military’s strategy to [...]

By: Thinking Images v.6: Gaith Abul-Ahad’s Taliban photographs | David Campbell

Sat, 08 Jan 2011 12:05:37 +0000

[...] visual landscape of the war in Afghanistan is primarily, and necessarily, a product of embedded reporting. However, because it is easier to be embedded with NATO military forces than the Taliban, we have [...]

By: The Aesthetics of the War in Afghanistan | David Campbell

The Aesthetics of the War in Afghanistan | David Campbell — Fri, 17 Dec 2010 12:19:47 +0000

[...] to an understandable concentration on certain locales like the Korengal Valley (as I discussed here, in a good debate with Tim Hetherington). Only on rare occasions have we seen the conflict from a [...]

By: Just some links « The Unknown Snapper

Just some links « The Unknown Snapper — Fri, 26 Nov 2010 23:08:54 +0000

[...] As well as another post by the same author (and quite old) on embedding (really interesting exchange… [...]

By: David Campbell

David Campbell — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 05:09:40 +0000

Gary Knight of VII Photo has written about the narrowing of the view effected by some stories from the Korengal Valley -- it chimes with my original post.