The Burden of Representation
Essays on Photographies and Histories
Published on 29. July 1988
Book
Paperback/Softback
XII, 254 pages
978-0-333-41824-6 (ISBN)
Description
The author traces a history which has 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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Edition
1988
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
XII, 254 p.
Dimensions
Height: 21.6 cm
Width: 14 cm
Weight
330 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-333-41824-6 (9780333418246)
Schweitzer Classification
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Book
07/1988
Palgrave Macmillan
€43.33
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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.