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BL
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1023936
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b778306
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| Main Entry
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Tagg, John.
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| Title & Author
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The disciplinary frame : : photographic truths and the capture of meaning /\ John Tagg.
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| Publication Statement
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Minneapolis :: University of Minnesota Press,, ©2009.
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1 online resource (xxxviii, 392 pages) :: illustrations
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| ISBN
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0816666229
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0816642877
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0816642885
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9780816642878
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9780816642885
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 357-377) and index.
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| Contents
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The one-eyed man and the one-armed man: camera : culture and the state -- The plane of decent seeing : documentary and the rhetoric of recruitment -- Melancholy realism: Walker Evans's resistance to meaning -- Running and dodging, 1943: the breakup of the documentary moment -- The pencil of history : photography, history, archive -- A discourse with shape of reason missing: art history and the frame.
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| Abstract
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Photography can seem to capture reality and the eye like no other medium, commanding belief and wielding the power of proof. In some cases, a photograph itself is attributed the force of the real. How can a piece of chemically discolored paper have such potency? How does the meaning of a photograph become fixed? In The Disciplinary Frame, John Tagg claims that, to answer these questions, we must look at the ways in which all that frames photography-the discourse that surrounds it and the institutions that circulate it- determines what counts as truth. The meaning and power of photographs, Tagg.
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Photography-- History.
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Photography-- Philosophy.
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PHOTOGRAPHY-- Collections, Catalogs, Exhibitions-- General.
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PHOTOGRAPHY-- Criticism.
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PHOTOGRAPHY-- Individual Photographers-- Artists' Books.
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Photography-- Philosophy.
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PHOTOGRAPHY-- Photoessays Documentaries.
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PHOTOGRAPHY-- Subjects Themes-- General.
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Photography.
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| Dewey Classification
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779
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| LC Classification
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TR183.T344 2009eb
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