Ocena zniszczeń. Spojrzenie dronów i militaryzacja wyobraźni wizualnej
Assessment of Damage. The Gaze of Drones and the Militarisation of Visual Imagination

Summary/Abstract: In 2013 Tomas van Houtryve used a universally available civilian drone to conduct an extensive planned photographic reconnaissance of US territory. For several months the drone flew over American parks, squares, and schools, taking a look at the daily life of the inhabitants present-day America. Consequently, there emerged a series of extremely ambiguous photographs in whose case it is easy to make a mistake and acknowledge that they were taken in Yemen or along the Afghan-Pakistan borderland. While analysing the van Houtryve photographs from the Blue Sky Day series the author of the article deliberated on the impact exerted upon visual imagination by images infiltrating from the grey zone of the still conducted war against terrorism.

• Details
• Contents