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The burden of representation : essays on photographies and histories / John Tagg.

By: Tagg, John, 1949-.
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookSeries: Communications and culture: Publisher: Basingstoke : Macmillan Education, 1988Description: xii, 242 p. : ill., ports. ; 23 cm.ISBN: 0333418247 (PBK); 9780333418246 (PBK); 0333418239 (cased); 9780333418239 (cased).Subject(s): Documentary photography | Photographie -- Philosophie | Photographie -- Aspect social | Photographie documentaire | Foto's | Representatie (algemeen) | Semiotiek | Bewijs (recht) | Photographie | Sozialgeschichte | Documentary photography - Critical studies
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.
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Bibliography: p231-236. - Includes index.

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.

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The burden of representation : by Tagg, John, ©1988

Macmillan Education, (Basingstoke :) xii, 242 p. : ill., ports. ; 23 cm.

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