LEADER 03016nam 2200625 450 001 9910796929703321 005 20230126212732.0 010 $a0-8173-8810-9 035 $a(CKB)3710000000371558 035 $a(EBL)1981230 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001438697 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12012626 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001438697 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11379173 035 $a(PQKB)10519185 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1981230 035 $a(OCoLC)904386621 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse42237 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1981230 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr11030594 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000371558 100 $a20150319h20152015 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aRhetorical exposures $econfrontation and contradiction in US social documentary photography /$fChristopher Carter ; cover and interior design, Michele Myatt Quinn 210 1$aTuscaloosa, Alabama :$cThe University Alabama Press,$d2015. 210 4$dİ2015 215 $a1 online resource (216 p.) 225 1 $aRhetoric, Culture, and Social Critique 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-8173-1862-3 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aWriting 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. 330 $aDocumentary photography aims to capture the material reality of life. In Rhetorical Exposures, Christopher Carter demonstrates how the creation and display of documentary photographs- often now called " imagetexts" - both invite analysis and raise persistent questions about the political and social causes for the bleak scenes of poverty and distress captured on film. Carter' s carefully reasoned monograph examines both formal qualities of composition and the historical contexts of the production and display of documentary photographs. In Rhetorical Exposures, Carter explores Jacob Riis' s hear 410 0$aRhetoric, culture, and social critique. 606 $aDocumentary photography$zUnited States$xHistory 606 $aPhotography$xSocial aspects$zUnited States$xHistory 606 $aPhotojournalists$zUnited States 607 $aUnited States$xSocial conditions 615 0$aDocumentary photography$xHistory. 615 0$aPhotography$xSocial aspects$xHistory. 615 0$aPhotojournalists 676 $a070.4/9 700 $aCarter$b Christopher$f1974-$01531577 702 $aMyatt-Quinn$b Michele 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910796929703321 996 $aRhetorical exposures$93777367 997 $aUNINA