Rhetorical exposures : confrontation and contradiction in US social documentary photography / Christopher Carter ; cover and interior design, Michele Myatt Quinn.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Carter, Christopher, 1974- author.

Contributor:

Myatt-Quinn, Michele, cover designer.

Series:

Rhetoric, culture, and social critique.

Rhetoric, Culture, and Social Critique

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Documentary photography--United States--History.

Documentary photography.

Photography--Social aspects--United States--History.

Photography.

Photojournalists--United States.

Photojournalists.

United States--Social conditions.

United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (216 p.)

Place of Publication:

Tuscaloosa, Alabama : The University Alabama Press, 2015.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Documentary photography aims to capture the material reality of life. In Rhetorical Exposures, Christopher Carter demonstrates how the creation and display of documentary photographs- often now called " imagetexts" - both invite analysis and raise persistent questions about the political and social causes for the bleak scenes of poverty and distress captured on film. Carter' s carefully reasoned monograph examines both formal qualities of composition and the historical contexts of the production and display of documentary photographs. In Rhetorical Exposures, Carter explores Jacob Riis' s hear

Contents:

Writing with light : Jacob Riis's ambivalent exposures

Let us now praise manly men : the antidocumentary heroics of James Agee and Walker Evans

Picturing capital : Ted Streshinsky's travels in "revolutionary" California

The rhetoric of ruins : walking with Walter Benjamin and Camilo Joseb Vergara

Keeping watch : immersion in post-Katrina visual culture.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-8173-8810-9

OCLC:

904386621