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

LIBRA TR183 .T34 1988
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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Tagg, John.
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Photography--Philosophy.
Photography.
Photography--Social aspects.
Documentary photography.
Physical Description:
xii, 242 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Place of Publication:
Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, 1988.
Contents:
Introduction
A democracy of the image
Evidence, truth, and order
A means of surveillance
A legal reality
God's sanitary law
The currency of the photograph
Contacts/worksheets.
Notes:
Includes index.
Essays written over a ten-year period.
Bibliography: pages 231-236.
ISBN:
0870236253 :
0870236261
OCLC:
17258373

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