Thomas Stubblefield discusses 9/11 and the Visual Culture of Disaster

Interviewed by Laura Baich, from Indiana University Press regarding Dr. Thomas Stubblefield’s upcoming book, 9/11 and the Visual Culture of Disaster.  http://ipad.io/fCDy

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Though the collapse of the World Trade Center was “the most photographed disaster in history,” it failed to yield a single noteworthy image of carnage. On this episode, Thomas Stubblefield talks about how the absence within these spectacular images is the paradox of 9/11 visual culture, which foregrounds the visual experience as it obscures the event in absence, erasure, and invisibility.