Photography and historical interpretation / edited by Jennifer Tucker.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Tucker, Jennifer, 1965-

Series:

History and theory. Theme issue ; 48.

History and theory: studies in the philosophy of history, 0018-2656 ; v. 48, no. 4, December 2009 ; Theme issue ; 48

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Photography in historiography.

Historiography--Methodology.

Historiography.

Documentary photography.

Evidence--History.

Evidence.

Images, Photographic.

Pictures as information resources.

History.

Physical Description:

168 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Malden, MA : Wiley Subscription Services ; Middletown, Conn. : Wesleyan University, [2009]

Contents:

Entwined practices: engagements with photography in historical inquiry / Jennifer Tucker, in collaboration with Tina Campt

Incongruous images: "before, during, and after" the Holocaust / Marianne Hirsch and Leo Spitzer

Seeing and saying: a response to "Incongruous images" / Geoffrey Batchen

Santu Mofokeng, photographs: "the violence is in the knowing" / Patricia Hayes

"Black skin and blood": documentary photography and Santu Mofokeng's critique of the visualization of apartheid South Africa / David Campbell

Of fish, birds, cats, mice, spiders, flies, pigs, and chimpanzees: how chance casts the historic action photograph into doubt / Robin Kelsey

Neither fish nor flesh / John Tagg

Photographic ambivalence and historical consciousness / Michael S. Roth

"When I was a photographer": Nadar and history / Stephen Bann

Photography and the practices of critical Black memory / Leigh Raiford

Photography and the material performance of the past / Elizabeth Edwards

The evidence of sight / Julia Adeney Thomas.

Notes:

Caption title.

Includes bibliographical references.

Includes abstracts.

OCLC:

501828373