Book Review: Death, Image, Memory: The Genocide in Rwanda and its Aftermath in Photography and Documentary Film

Authors

Scott Ahearn, Harvard Extension School, Harvard UniversityFollow

Abstract

As Rwanda marks the twenty-fifth anniversary of the genocide this spring, Piotr Cieplak’s book, Death, Image, Memory: The Genocide in Rwanda and its Aftermath in Photography and Documentation, is timely as an exploration of the documentary imagery developed since 1994 and its “uncomfortable coexistence with the genocide and its aftermath.” His book looks at still and video images from Westerners and Rwandans alike, and examines the ways in which these images succeed or fall short in bringing identity and remembrance to the victims of the genocide.

Acknowledgements

(1) Piotr Cieplak, Death, Image, Memory: The Genocide in Rwanda and its Aftermath in Photography and Documentation (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017), 4. (2) Piotr Cieplak, Death, Image, Memory: The Genocide in Rwanda and its Aftermath in Photography and Documentation (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017), 27. (3) Piotr Cieplak, Death, Image, Memory: The Genocide in Rwanda and its Aftermath in Photography and Documentation (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017), 194.

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5038/1911-9933.13.2.1688

Recommended Citation

Ahearn, Scott (2019) "Book Review: Death, Image, Memory: The Genocide in Rwanda and its Aftermath in Photography and Documentary Film," Genocide Studies and Prevention: An International Journal: Vol. 13: Iss. 2: 162-164.
DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5038/1911-9933.13.2.1688

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