Questions: what is the role of this media choreography in the image as a document? How does the performativity of a staged, scripted reality impact the "exhibition value" of war? And how does it impact the image's status as a document? I think a reading through a Benjamin lens is interesting along the lines of the massification of images but problematised by the instrumentalisation of war images in the media. I think other than poor images, Steyerl's "Documentary Uncertainty" might be relevant?
Questions: what is the role of this media choreography in the image as a document? How does the performativity of a staged, scripted reality impact the "exhibition value" of war? And how does it impact the image's status as a document? I think a reading through a Benjamin lens is interesting along the lines of the massification of images but problematised by the instrumentalisation of war images in the media. I think other than poor images, Steyerl's "Documentary Uncertainty" might be relevant?