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The Disciplinary Frame: Photographic Truths and the Capture of Meaning
John Tagg
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Description for The Disciplinary Frame: Photographic Truths and the Capture of Meaning
Paperback. Num Pages: 392 pages, 65 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: AJC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 156 x 23. Weight in Grams: 696.
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, ... Read more
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, ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press United States
Number of pages
392
Condition
New
Number of Pages
392
Place of Publication
Minnesota, United States
ISBN
9780816642885
SKU
V9780816642885
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