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UNINA9910459933703321 |
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Carter Christopher <1974-> |
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Titolo |
Rhetorical exposures : confrontation and contradiction in US social documentary photography / / Christopher Carter ; cover and interior design, Michele Myatt Quinn |
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Tuscaloosa, Alabama : , : The University Alabama Press, , 2015 |
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©2015 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (216 p.) |
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Collana |
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Rhetoric, Culture, and Social Critique |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Documentary photography - United States - History |
Photography - Social aspects - United States - History |
Photojournalists - United States |
Electronic books. |
United States Social conditions |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Writing with light : Jacob Riis's ambivalent exposures -- Let us now praise manly men : the antidocumentary heroics of James Agee and Walker Evans -- Picturing capital : Ted Streshinsky's travels in "revolutionary" California -- The rhetoric of ruins : walking with Walter Benjamin and Camilo Joseb Vergara -- Keeping watch : immersion in post-Katrina visual culture. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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Documentary photography aims to capture the material reality of life. In Rhetorical Exposures, Christopher Carter demonstrates how the creation and display of documentary photographs- often now called " imagetexts" - both invite analysis and raise persistent questions about the political and social causes for the bleak scenes of poverty and distress captured on film. Carter' s carefully reasoned monograph examines both formal qualities of composition and the historical contexts of the production and display of documentary photographs. In Rhetorical Exposures, Carter explores Jacob Riis' s hear |
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