Tagg, John, <br/><br/>
The disciplinary frame :  photographic truths and the capture of meaning / 
John Tagg. 
 - xxxviii, 392 pages :  illustrations,  22 cm 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (pages 265-377) and index. 
<br/><br/>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. 
<br/><br/> 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. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0816642885 9780816642885 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2008039551 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Photography--Philosophy<br/>Photography--History.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>TR183  / .T344 2009 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>779