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

Main entry:

Tagg, John.

Title & Author:

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

Publication:

Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, 1988.

Description:

xii, 242 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Notes:
Essays written over a ten-year period.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-236) and index.
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.

ISBN:

0870236253
9780870236259
0870236261 (pbk.)
9780870236266 (pbk.)

Subject:

Photography Philosophy.
Photography Social aspects History.
Documentary photography.
Photography Social aspects.
Photographie Philosophie.
Photographie Aspect social.
Photographie documentaire.
Photographie Aspect social Histoire.
documentary photography.
Fotografie
Photographie.

Form/genre:

History.
Documentary photography.

Added entries:

Essays on photographies and histories

Holdings:

Location: Library main 43503
Call No.: ID:89-B3256
Status: Available

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