The burden of representation : essays on photographies and histories / John Tagg.
Published / Created:
Minneapolis, Minn. : University of Minnesota Press, 1993.
Physical Description:
xii, 242 p. : ill. ; 22 cm
Collection:
Reference Library
Copyright Status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
Classification:
Books
Notes:
Originally published: Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, 1988.
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.
Subject Terms:
Photography -- Philosophy. | Photography -- Social aspects -- History. | Documentary photography. | Documentary photography | Photography Philosophy | Photography Social aspects History