The burden of representation

Description

Photographs are used as documents, records and evidence every day in courtrooms and hospitals, on passports and driving licences. But how did photographs come to be established and accepted, what sort of agencies and institutions have the power to enforce this status and, more generally, what concept of photographic representation is entailed and what are its consequences? In addressing such issues, John Tagg traces a previously unexamined history which has profound 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.

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Other Editions

• The burden of representation: essays on photographies and historiesUniversity of Massachusetts Press1988-01-01
• Burden of RepresentationPalgrave Macmillan1988-01-01
• The burden of representationUniversity of Minnesota Press1993-01-01
• Burden of RepresentationUniversity of Minnesota Press2021-01-01