Rhetorical Exposures : Confrontation and Contradiction in US Social Documentary Photography /

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Documentary photography aims to capture the material reality of life. In Rhetorical Exposures, Christopher Carter demonstrates how the creation and display of documentary photographs- often now called " imagetexts"--Both invite analysis and raise persistent questions about the political an...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Carter, Christopher, 1974- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Tuscaloosa : The University of Alabama Press, [2015]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Social conditions.
Photojournalists.
Photography > Social aspects.
Documentary photography.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES > Journalism.
Photographie documentaire > États-Unis > Histoire.
Photographie > Aspect social > États-Unis > Histoire.
Photographes de presse > États-Unis.
Documentary photography > United States > History.
Photography > Social aspects > United States > History.
Photojournalists > United States.
United States.
États-Unis > Conditions sociales.
United States > Social conditions.
History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
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Summary:Documentary photography aims to capture the material reality of life. In Rhetorical Exposures, Christopher Carter demonstrates how the creation and display of documentary photographs- often now called " imagetexts"--Both invite analysis and raise persistent questions about the political and social causes for the bleak scenes of poverty and distress captured on film. Carter' s carefully reasoned monograph examines both formal qualities of composition and the historical contexts of the production and display of documentary photographs. In Rhetorical Exposures, Carter explores Jacob Riis' s hear.
Physical Description:1 online resource (215 pages).
ISBN:9780817388102

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