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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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Main Author: Carter, Christopher, 1974- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Tuscaloosa : The University of Alabama Press, [2015]
Subjects:
Photojournalists > United States.
Photography > Social aspects > United States > History.
Documentary photography > United States > History.
United States > Social conditions.
Online Access: Full text (MFA users only)
ISBN:9780817388102
0817388109
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • Writing with light : Jacob Riis's ambivalent exposures
  • Let us now praise manly men : the antidocumentary heroics of James Agee and Walker Evans
  • Picturing capital : Ted Streshinsky's travels in "revolutionary" California
  • The rhetoric of ruins : walking with Walter Benjamin and Camilo Joseb Vergara
  • Keeping watch : immersion in post-Katrina visual culture.

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