Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vi
3. Illustrations ix
4. Acknowledgments xv
5. Cold War: Camera An Introduction 1
6. Visual Alliances
7. 1 Ernest Cole’s House of Bondage, the United States Information Agency, and the Cultural Politics of Race in the Cold War 33
8. 2 Icon of Solidarity: The Revolutionary Vietnamese Woman in Vietnam, Palestine, and Iran 67
9. 3 Group Material’s “Art for the Future”: Visualizing Transnational Solidarity at the End of the Global Cold War 113
10. 4 Interrogating the Cold War’s Geo-Politics from Down South: Chile from Within (1990) and the Construction of a Situated Visuality 143
11. 5 Decolonization and Nonalignment: African Futures, Lost and Found 167
12. Photo Essays
13. 6 Bifurcated and Parallel Histories 195
14. 7 Preservation of Terror 203
15. Structures of Seeing
16. 8 Ending World War II: The Visual Literacy Class in Cold War Human Rights 213
17. 9 “Planted There Like Human Flags”: Photographs of the High Arctic and Cold War Anxiety, 1951 – 1956 239
18. 10 Urban Albums, Village Forms: Chinese Family Photographs and the Cold War 263
19. 11 Travel, Space, and Belonging in Soviet Domestic Photo Collections of the Cold War Era 297
20. 12 Exhibiting Ethnic Minorities, Democratizing History: Cold War Legacies and the Jews in Poland’s Visible Sphere 327
21. Bibliography 359
22. Contributors 389
23. Index 395