| Description |
1 online resource (xxxviii, 392 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
The one-eyed man and the one-armed man: camera : culture and the state -- The plane of decent seeing : documentary and the rhetoric of recruitment -- Melancholy realism: Walker Evans's resistance to meaning -- Running and dodging, 1943: the breakup of the documentary moment -- The pencil of history : photography, history, archive -- A discourse with shape of reason missing: art history and the frame |
| Summary |
Photography can seem to capture reality and the eye like no other medium, commanding belief and wielding the power of proof. In some cases, a photograph itself is attributed the force of the real. How can a piece of chemically discolored paper have such potency? How does the meaning of a photograph become fixed? In The Disciplinary Frame, John Tagg claims that, to answer these questions, we must look at the ways in which all that frames photography-the discourse that surrounds it and the institutions that circulate it- determines what counts as truth. The meaning and power of photographs, Tagg |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 357-377) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Photography -- Philosophy
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Photography -- History
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PHOTOGRAPHY -- Collections, Catalogs, Exhibitions -- General.
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PHOTOGRAPHY -- Subjects & Themes -- General.
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PHOTOGRAPHY -- Individual Photographers -- Artists' Books.
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PHOTOGRAPHY -- Photoessays & Documentaries.
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PHOTOGRAPHY -- Criticism.
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Photography
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Photography -- Philosophy
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2008039551 |
| ISBN |
9780816666225 |
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0816666229 |
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