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Categories: Photography
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How do photographs gain their meaning and power? John Tagg claims that, to answer this question, we must look at the ways in which everything that frames photog
The Burden of Representation
Language: en
Pages: 260
Authors: John Tagg
Categories: Photography
Type: BOOK - Published: 1993 - Publisher: U of Minnesota Press

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Photographs are used as documents, evidence, and records every day in courtrooms, hospitals, and police work, on passports, permits, and licenses. But how did s
Camera Lucida
Language: en
Pages: 134
Authors: Roland Barthes
Categories: Philosophy
Type: BOOK - Published: 1981 - Publisher: Macmillan

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"Examining the themes of presence and absence, the relationship between photography and theatre, history and death, these 'reflections on photography' begin as
Writing Art History
Language: en
Pages: 256
Authors: Margaret Iversen
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2010-12 - Publisher: University of Chicago Press

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Since art history is having a major identity crisis as it struggles to adapt to contemporary global and mass media culture, this book intervenes in the struggle
Disciplinary Identities
Language: en
Pages: 250
Authors: Ken Hyland
Categories: Foreign Language Study
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Ken Hyland draws on a number of sources to explore how authors convey aspects of their identities within the constraints placed upon them by their disciplines'