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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-> Visualizza persona
Titolo: Rhetorical exposures : confrontation and contradiction in US social documentary photography / / Christopher Carter ; cover and interior design, Michele Myatt Quinn Visualizza cluster
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  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 0-8173-8810-9
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910796929703321
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Serie: Rhetoric, culture, and social critique.