Ariella Azoulay
The Civil Contract of Photography
Cambridge, MA:
Zone Books,
2008.
574 pp.; 10 color ills.; 101 b/w ills.
Cloth
$38.95
(9781890951887)
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April 28, 2010
John Tagg
The Disciplinary Frame: Photographic Truths and the Capture of Meaning
Minneapolis:
University of Minnesota Press,
2009.
432 pp.; few b/w ills.
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(9780816642885)
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Since John Tagg published his first book, The Burden of Representation: Essays on Photographies and Histories (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1988), he has been one of the most recognized figures in photographic theory. He is part of a brilliant generation of Anglo-American authors who emerged from the 1968 political movement, appeared in the public arena in the context of the 1970s New Art History, and whose contribution to a theorization of photography using the...