Rhetorical exposures : confrontation and contradiction in US social documentary photography /
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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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Tuscaloosa :
The University of Alabama Press,
[2015]
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| Series: | Rhetoric, culture, and social critique.
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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 |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xv, 199 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780817388102 0817388109 |
| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Print version record. |