| Description |
xxxviii, 392 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
| Contents |
Introduction. The Violence of Meaning -- 1. The One-Eyed Man and the One-Armed Man: Camera, Culture, and the State -- 2. The Plane of Decent Seeing: Documentary and the Rhetoric of Recruitment -- 3. Melancholy Realism: Walker Evans's Resistance to Meaning -- 4. Running and Dodging, 1943: The Breakup of the Documentary Moment -- 5. The Pencil of History: Photography, History, Archive -- 6. A Discourse with Shape of Reason Missing: Art History and the Frame |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Photography -- Philosophy.
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Photography -- History.
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| LC no. |
2008039551 |
| ISBN |
9780816642878 hardcover alkaline paper |
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9780816642885 pb alkaline paper |
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