Documentary across disciplines /

Documentary across disciplines / edited by Erika Balsom and Hila Peleg. - 322 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

This book emerges from the Berlin Documentary Forum, a program for the production and presentation of contemporary and historical documentary practices in an interdisciplinary context.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The documentary attitude / Bruises and blushes: photography 'beyond' anthropology / 'The cruel radiance of what is' / 'A cage of information,' or, what is a biometric diagram? / Interview in perspective I: the man with a tape recorder / Photography is not served: 'The family of man' and the human condition / 'Now that's Brecht at last!': Harun Farocki's observational films / Didactic elegy / Reading between the images / Montage against all odds / No man's land, every man's home: Clemens von Wedemeyer documentary aporia / Interviews in perspective 2: dying documented / Narrative, 'evidence vérité,' and the different truths of the modern trial documentary / The right to one's self-image / Data visualization and documentary's (in)visible frontiers / Erika Balsom, Hila Peleg -- Christopher Pinney -- Lucien Castaing-Taylor, Véréna Paravel, and Ben Rivers in conversation -- Zach Blas -- Sylvère Lotringer -- Ariella Azoulay -- Volker Pantenburg -- Ben Lerner -- Christa Blümlinger -- Antonia Majaca and Eyal Sivan in conversation -- Evgenia Giannouri -- Sylvère Lotringer -- Stella Bruzzi -- Sohrab Mohebbi -- Kris Fallon.

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Documentary mass media and the arts.
Documentary films
Documentary photography.

NX180.D63 D632 2016

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