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The disciplinary frame : photographic truths and the capture of meaning / / John Tagg



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Autore: Tagg John Visualizza persona
Titolo: The disciplinary frame : photographic truths and the capture of meaning / / John Tagg Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, c2009
Edizione: 1st ed.
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (432 p.)
Disciplina: 779
Soggetto topico: Photography - History
Photography - Philosophy
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 357-377) and index.
Nota di contenuto: The one-eyed man and the one-armed man: camera, culture and the state -- The plane of decent seeing : documentary and the rhetoric of recruitment -- Melancholy realism: Walker Evans's resistance to meaning -- Running and dodging, 1943: the breakup of the documentary moment -- The pencil of history : photography, history, archive -- A discourse with shape of reason missing: art history and the frame.
Sommario/riassunto: Photography can seem to capture reality and the eye like no other medium, commanding belief and wielding the power of proof. In some cases, a photograph itself is attributed the force of the real. How can a piece of chemically discolored paper have such potency? How does the meaning of a photograph become fixed? In The Disciplinary Frame, John Tagg claims that, to answer these questions, we must look at the ways in which all that frames photography-the discourse that surrounds it and the institutions that circulate it-determines what counts as truth. The meaning and power of photographs,
Titolo autorizzato: The disciplinary frame  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 0-8166-6622-9
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910822355903321
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