The disciplinary frame : photographic truths and the capture of meaning / John Tagg.
Material type: TextPublisher: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2009]Copyright date: c2009Description: xxxviii, 392 pages : illustrations, 22 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 0816642885
- 9780816642885
- 779 23
- TR183 .T344 2009
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 265-377) and index.
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.
How do photographs gain their meaning and power? John Tagg claims that, to answer this question, we must look at the ways in which everything that frames photography - the discourse that surrounds it and the institutions that circulate it - determines what counts as truth.
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