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Record Nr.

UNINA9910816328403321

Autore

Lavoie Vincent

Titolo

Now / / Vincent Lavoie

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Montreal : , : McGill-Queen's University Press, , [2003]

©2003

ISBN

1-282-86435-1

9786612864353

0-7735-7430-1

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (320 p.)

Disciplina

779.092

Soggetti

Photography, Artistic

Photojournalism

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Catalogue of exhibitions held in Montréal, Quebec, Sept. 4-Oct. 28, 2003.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front Matter -- Contents -- Photography and Imaginaries of the Present -- A Few Complex Images of Present Time: Modernity, the Media and Time -- Temporal Montage in the Artistic Practices of the Archive -- The Fate of the Image-Monument in the Wake of 9/11 -- The Spectacularization of Dark Tourism: Photojournalism, Deontology and Commemoration in the Visitation of Sites of Mass Disaster -- The Suffering of Strangers: Press Photographs and “Compassion Fatigue” -- The Immediacy of War Pictures: Fugitive Images and “the Soda-Straw Effect” -- The Picture (Of the Battlefield) -- When Photojournalism Becomes Merchandise -- Index of the Artists and the Works -- Selective Bibliography

Sommario/riassunto

How can history be depicted, bearing in mind that the media (mainly photojournalism and the electronic press) have claimed a monopoly of the genre unto themselves?.