The Disciplinary Frame: Photographic Truths and the Capture of Meaning

by John Tagg

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0816642885
• ISBN13: 9780816642885
• Release Date: January 2009
• Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
• Length: 392 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 8.8"