Rhetorical exposures : confrontation and contradiction in US social documentary photography / / Christopher Carter ; cover and interior design, Michele Myatt Quinn
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| Autore: |
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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| Pubblicazione: | Tuscaloosa, Alabama : , : The University Alabama Press, , 2015 |
| ©2015 | |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (216 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 070.4/9 |
| Soggetto topico: | Documentary photography - United States - History |
| Photography - Social aspects - United States - History | |
| Photojournalists - United States | |
| Soggetto geografico: | United States Social conditions |
| Persona (resp. second.): | Myatt-QuinnMichele |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | 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. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | 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 |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Rhetorical exposures |
| ISBN: | 0-8173-8810-9 |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910796929703321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
| Opac: | Controlla la disponibilità qui |
Serie:
Rhetoric, culture, and social critique.