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Loading... The Burden of Representation: Essays on Photographies and Histories (1988)by John Tagg
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. Quasi-Marxist/Althusserian analysis of the ways in which photography has been deployed on behalf of the state to categorize and control (through processes of documentation), as well as ways in which photography was deemed the object of property through copyright and/or considered as art. Half very interesting, half theory babble. ( ) no reviews | add a review
The author traces a history which has implications not only for the theory and practice of conventionally separated areas of amateur, professional, technical, documentary and art photography, but also for the understanding of the role of photography in processes of modern social regulation. No library descriptions found. |
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