Format:
1 Online-Ressource (xxxviii, 392 pages)
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illustrations
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
ISBN:
0816642877
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0816642885
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0816666229
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9780816642878
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9780816642885
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9780816666225
Content:
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
Content:
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
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 357-377) and index
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0816642877
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0816642885
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780816642878
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780816642885
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Tagg, John Disciplinary frame Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, ©2009
Language:
English
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