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The burden of representation : essays on photographies and histories
Author
Title
The burden of representation : essays on photographies and histories / John Tagg.
ISBN
0816624046 (alk. paper)
9780816624041 (alk. paper)
0816624054 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780816624058 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0816621314 (alk. paper)
9780816621316 (alk. paper)
0816621322 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780816621323 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Published
Minneapolis, Minn. : University of Minnesota Press, 1993.
Physical Description
xii, 242 p. : ill. ; 22 cm
Notes
Originally published: Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, 1988.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
September 16, 2019
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. 231-236) and index.
Contents
A democracy of the image: photographic portraiture and commodity production
Evidence, truth and order: photographic records and the growth of the state
A means of surveillance: the photograph as evidence of law
A legal reality: the photograph as property in law
God's sanitary law: slum clearance and photography in late nineteenth-century Leeds
The currency of the photograph: New Deal reformism and documentary rhetoric
Contacts/worksheets: notes on photography, history and representation.
Subjects
Genre/Form
History.
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