The disciplinary frame [[electronic resource] ] : photographic truths and the capture of meaning / / John Tagg

• Autore: Tagg John
• Pubblicazione: Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, c2009
• 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
• ISBN: 0-8166-6622-9
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910822355903321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II