The author traces a history which has 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.

The Burden of Representation: Essays on Photographies and Histories

Arts & Photography

TAGG, John

History & Criticism

PALGRAVE~MACMILLAN

This new collection of essays does not propose to outline a synthetic theory of culture, but traces a path from the methodological debates that coalesced in art history and cultural studies in the late 1970s to the more recent concern with institutions of meaning, identity and power. The radically discontinuous nature of these disciplines compels their continual renegotiation, and it is these 'grounds of dispute' that mark the shifting spaces of cultural politics. 'This is an important book by a scholar of international stature...consistently brilliant, attractive, and compelling.' Richard Leppert

Grounds of Dispute: Art History, Cultural Politics and the Discursive Field

Palgrave HE UK

This new collection of essays does not propose to outline a synthetic theory of culture, but traces a path from the methodological debates that coalesced in art history and cultural studies in the late 1970s to the more recent concern with institutions of meaning, identity and power. The radically discontinuous nature of these disciplines compels their continual renegotiation, and it is these 'grounds of dispute' that mark the shifting spaces of cultural politics. 'This is an important book by a scholar of international stature...consistently brilliant, attractive, and compelling.' Richard Leppert

Grounds Of Dispute: Art History, Cultural Politics and the Discursive Field

Univ. of Minnesota Press

Looks at art history as it relates to cultural politics and practices. The book itself begins with art as it developed its historical perspective in 1985 and journeys through Marxist and feminist influences, photography and technological change, the discursive field and post-modernism.

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.

Burden Of Representation: Essays on Photographies and Histories

Photography can seem to capture reality and the eye like no other medium, commanding belief and wielding the power of proof. In some cases, a photograph itself is attributed the force of the real. How can a piece of chemically discolored paper have such potency? How does the meaning of a photograph become fixed? In The Disciplinary Frame, John Tagg claims that, to answer these questions, we must look at the ways in which all that frames photography—the discourse that surrounds it and the institutions that circulate it— determines what counts as truth. The meaning and power of photographs, Tagg asserts, are discursive effects of the regimens that produce them as official record, documentary image, historical evidence, or art. Teasing out the historical processes involved, he examines a series of revealing case studies from nineteenth-century European and American photographs to Depression-era works by Walker Evans, Dorothea Lange, and Margaret Bourke-White to the conceptualist photography of John Baldessari. Central to this transformative work are questions of cultural strategy, the growth of the state, and broad issues of power and representation: how the discipline of the frame holds both photographic image and viewer in place, without erasing the possibility for evading, and even resisting, capture. Photographs, Tagg ultimately finds, are at once too big and too small for the frames in which they are enclosed—always saying more than is wanted and less than is desired.

The Disciplinary Frame: Photographic Truths and the Capture of Meaning

Photography & Video

Photography can seem to capture reality and the eye like no other medium, commanding belief and wielding the power of proof. In some cases, a photograph itself is attributed the force of the real. How can a piece of chemically discolored paper have such potency? How does the meaning of a photograph become fixed? In The Disciplinary Frame, John Tagg claims that, to answer these questions, we must look at the ways in which all that frames photography—the discourse that surrounds it and the institutions that circulate it— determines what counts as truth. The meaning and power of photographs, Tagg asserts, are discursive effects of the regimens that produce them as official record, documentary image, historical evidence, or art. Teasing out the historical processes involved, he examines a series of revealing case studies from nineteenth-century European and American photographs to Depression-era works by Walker Evans, Dorothea Lange, and Margaret Bourke-White to the conceptualist photography of John Baldessari. Central to this transformative work are questions of cultural strategy, the growth of the state, and broad issues of power and representation: how the discipline of the frame holds both photographic image and viewer in place, without erasing the possibility for evading, and even resisting, capture. Photographs, Tagg ultimately finds, are at once too big and too small for the frames in which they are enclosed—always saying more than is wanted and less than is desired.

Proudhon, Marx, Picasso

Politics & Social Sciences

Raphael, Max

Marcuse, Inge

Politics & Government

Lawrence and Wishart Ltd.

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.

Univ of Massachusetts Pr

The author traces a history which has 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.

Burden of Representation: Essays on Photographies and Histories

The University of Massachusetts Press

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The Burden of Representation: Essays on Photographies and Histories

Grounds of Dispute: Art History, Cultural Politics and the Discursive Field

Grounds Of Dispute: Art History, Cultural Politics and the Discursive Field

Grounds Of Dispute: Art History, Cultural Politics and the Discursive Field

Burden Of Representation: Essays on Photographies and Histories

The Disciplinary Frame: Photographic Truths and the Capture of Meaning

The Disciplinary Frame: Photographic Truths and the Capture of Meaning

Proudhon, Marx, Picasso

The Burden of Representation: Essays on Photographies and Histories

Burden of Representation: Essays on Photographies and Histories