Rhetorical Exposures: Confrontation and Contradiction in US Social Documentary Photography

by Christopher Carter

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 and social causes for the bleak scenes of poverty and distress captured on film.

Carter's carefully reasoned monograph examines both formal qualities...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0817318623
• ISBN13: 9780817318628
• Release Date: April 2015
• Publisher: University Alabama Press
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.2" x 9.0"