Title The burden of representation : essays on photographies and histories / John Tagg

Published Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, 1988

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Description xii, 242 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm Contents Introduction -- A democracy of the image -- Evidence, truth, and order -- A means of surveillance -- A legal reality -- God's sanitary law -- The currency of the photograph -- Contacts/worksheets Notes Includes index Bibliography Bibliography: pages 231-236 Essays written over a ten-year period Subject Documentary photography. Photography -- Philosophy. Photography -- Social aspects -- History. Photography -- Social aspects. LC no. 87030085 ISBN 0870236253 0870236261

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