PHOTOGRAPHY – WAR AND POST-WAR WITNESS

SIGNIFICANCE OF DOCUMENTARY PHOTOGRAPHY

Authors

  • Haris Memija

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.26340/muallim.v16i62.123

Keywords:

documentary photography, photo-reporters, aggression on BiH, genocide, mass-graves

Abstract

UDK 77.03:355.01

The article relates about the significance of documentary pho-tography as a document of war events and crimes that took place during the aggression in BiH, but also its significance in perception of the truth concerning these events. The intro-duction part presents the brief history of documentary pho-tography, whilst the main part deals with documentary pho-tography as a witness to the suffering of Bosniaks and the genocide committed against them. Here the author focuses upon those photographs pertaining to the later period of the aggression on BiH and those documenting post-war details of the mass-graves. The article also presents some of the rep-resentative documentary photos taken by the number of pho-tographers working at the time.

Published

01-08-2022

How to Cite

Memija, H. (2022). PHOTOGRAPHY – WAR AND POST-WAR WITNESS: SIGNIFICANCE OF DOCUMENTARY PHOTOGRAPHY. Novi Muallim, 16(62), 48–57. https://doi.org/10.26340/muallim.v16i62.123