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