03016nam 2200625 450 991081216280332120230126212732.00-8173-8810-9(CKB)3710000000371558(EBL)1981230(SSID)ssj0001438697(PQKBManifestationID)12012626(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001438697(PQKBWorkID)11379173(PQKB)10519185(MiAaPQ)EBC1981230(OCoLC)904386621(MdBmJHUP)muse42237(Au-PeEL)EBL1981230(CaPaEBR)ebr11030594(EXLCZ)99371000000037155820150319h20152015 uy 0engurcnu||||||||txtccrRhetorical exposures confrontation and contradiction in US social documentary photography /Christopher Carter ; cover and interior design, Michele Myatt QuinnTuscaloosa, Alabama :The University Alabama Press,2015.©20151 online resource (216 p.)Rhetoric, Culture, and Social CritiqueDescription based upon print version of record.0-8173-1862-3 Includes bibliographical references and index.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.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 hearRhetoric, culture, and social critique.Documentary photographyUnited StatesHistoryPhotographySocial aspectsUnited StatesHistoryPhotojournalistsUnited StatesUnited StatesSocial conditionsDocumentary photographyHistory.PhotographySocial aspectsHistory.Photojournalists070.4/9Carter Christopher1974-1628578Myatt-Quinn MicheleMiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910812162803321Rhetorical exposures3965770UNINA