TY - BOOK AU - Tagg,John TI - The disciplinary frame: photographic truths and the capture of meaning SN - 0816642885 AV - TR183 .T344 2009 U1 - 779 23 PY - 2009///] CY - Minneapolis PB - University of Minnesota Press KW - Photography KW - Philosophy KW - History N1 - 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 N2 - 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 ER -