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Guilt in the Archive: Photography and the Amritsar Massacre of 1919
History of Photography Pub Date : 2019-01-02 , DOI: 10.1080/03087298.2019.1613791
Sean Willcock

What role should photographic evidence play in current debates about whether or not Britain should apologise for the historic crimes of empire? This article examines the photographs that emerged from the Amritsar Massacre of 13 April 1919, considering what such documents can tell us about the relationship between atrocity and the imperial project. Colonials working in both official and unofficial capacities turned to photography in their attempt to justify this bloody twentieth-century episode. Such photography addressed colonial debates concerning the scope of moral and legal, individual and collective, and British and Indian culpability for the Massacre. It is therefore important that we attend to such visual evidence at the Massacre’s centenary, as the United Kingdom is urged to apologise for the infamous slaughter of Indian men, women, and children.

中文翻译:

档案中的内疚:摄影与 1919 年的阿姆利则大屠杀

在当前关于英国是否应该为帝国的历史罪行道歉的辩论中,照片证据应该扮演什么角色?本文考察了 1919 年 4 月 13 日阿姆利则大屠杀中出现的照片,考虑这些文件可以告诉我们关于暴行与帝国计划之间的关系的哪些信息。以官方和非官方身份工作的殖民者转向摄影,试图为这一血腥的 20 世纪事件辩护。这种摄影解决了关于道德和法律、个人和集体以及英国和印度对大屠杀的责任范围的殖民辩论。因此,在大屠杀一百周年之际,我们关注此类视觉证据非常重要,因为敦促联合王国为臭名昭著的印度男人、女人、
更新日期:2019-01-02
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