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Caren Kaplan

Caren Kaplan is Professor of American Studies at the University of California at Davis. Her current research focuses on the history of aerial views, immersive media, and militarized visual culture. icon

Soldier Exposures and Technical Publics

By Zoë H. Wool (ed.), David Serlin, Beth Linker, Beatrice Jauregui, Joseph Masco, Caren Kaplan, Paul Lawrie, & Ken MacLeish

In this collaborative visual essay, we consider an idiosyncratic assemblage of pictures of American soldiers. These are not iconic images that “speak for themselves” but less conventional ones that ...

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