Author

Publication

2009 - University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis, Minnesota

Language

English

Word Count

98,000 words, Guess

Page Count

392 pages

Identifiers

and 8 more
  • ISBN-100816642885
  • LibraryThing8196848
  • Library of Congress Control Number2008039551
  • OCLC Control Number229031106
  • Better World Books9780816642878
  • Better World Books9780816642885
  • Better World BooksT3-AFR-858
  • Open LibraryOL22528763M

Classifications

  • DDC779
  • LCCTR183 .T344 2009
  • LCCTR183.T344 2009

Description

How do photographs gain their meaning and power? John Tagg claims that, to answer this question, we must look at the ways in which everything that frames photography - the discourse that surrounds it and the institutions that circulate it - determines what counts as truth.

Subjects

Other Editions

  • The disciplinary frame: photographic truths and the capture of meaningUniversity of Minnesota Press2009-01-01

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