
The Burden of Representation
Essays on Photographies and Histories
John Tagg(Author)
Palgrave Macmillan (Publisher)
Published on 29. July 1988
Book
Hardback
254 pages
978-0-333-41823-9 (ISBN)
Description
Photographs are used as documents, records and evidence every day in courtrooms and hospitals, on passports and driving licences. But how did photographs come to be established and accepted, what sort of agencies and institutions have the power to enforce this status and, more generally, what concept of photographic representation is entailed and what are its consequences? In addressing such issues, John Tagg traces a previously unexamined history which has profound implications not only for the theory and practice of conventionally separated areas of amateur, professional, technical, documentary and art photography, but also for the understanding of the role of photography in processes of modern social regulation.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Basingstoke
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
17 b&w photographs, bilbliography, index
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 139 mm
Weight
313 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-333-41823-9 (9780333418239)
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Content
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 in law; a legal reality - a photograph as property in law; God's sanitary law - slum clearance and photography in late 19th century Leeds; the currency of the photograph - new deal reformism and documentary rhetoric; contacts, worksheets - notes on photography; history and representation.