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
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
"Examining the themes of presence and absence, the relationship between photography and theatre, history and death, these 'reflections on photography' begin as
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
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'