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Øyvind Vågnes Editor & Author

Asbjørn Grønstad is professor of visual culture in the Department of Information Science and Media Studies, University of Bergen. He is founding director of Nomadikon: The Bergen Center for Visual Culture and author/editor of several books in film studies and visual culture. He is also founding editor of the peer-reviewed journal Ekphrasis: Nordic Journal of Visual Culture. His most recent book is Cinema and Agamben: Ethics, Biopolitics and the Moving Image (co-edited with Henrik Gustafsson, 2014). Henrik Gustafsson is Associate Professor of Media- and Documentation Science at the University of Tromsø, Norway. Recent publications include Cinema & Agamben: Ethics, Biopolitics and the Moving Image (2014) and Ethics and Images of Pain (2012), both co-edited with Grønstad, and articles in History of Photography (February 2016) and Journal of Visual Culture (April 2013).   Øyvind Vågnes is Associate Professor of Visual Culture at the University of Bergen, Norway. Recent publications include "Lessons from the Life of an Image: Malcolm Browne's Photograph of Thich Quang Duc's Self-Immolation", in Frances Guerin, ed., On Not Looking: The Paradox of Contemporary Visual Culture (London: Routledge, 2015), and Zaprudered: The Kennedy Assassination Film in Visual Culture (2011), which received honorable mention at the American Publishers Awards for Professional and Scholarly Excellence.