Photography and Its Violations

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Theorists critique photography for #x93;objectifying" its subjects and manipulating appearance for the sake of art. In this bold counterargument, John Roberts recasts photography's violating powers and aesthetic technique as part of a complex #x93;social ontology" that exposes the hierarchies, divisions, and exclusions behind appearances. Photography must #x93;arrive unannounced" and #x93;get in the way of the world," Roberts argues, committing to the truth-claims of the spectator over the self…

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Full title :Photography and Its Violations

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Publication Date:2014.

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Publisher(s):Columbia University Press
Place of Publication:New York
Language:eng
Publication Date:2014.

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Description:1 online resource (390 p.).

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ISBN:9780231538244, 0231538243
oclc:on1331421029
LC Classification:TR183 .R6324 2014
Dewey Decimal:770.1

Cover ; Title Page; Copyright; Contents ; Acknowledgments; Introduction: The Social Ontology of Photography; Part I: The Document, the Figural, and the Index; 1. Photography and Its Truth-Event; 2. The Political Form of Photography Today; 3. "Fragment, Experiment, Dissonant Prologue": Modernism, Realism, and the Photodocument; 4. Two Models of Labor: Figurality and Nonfigurality in Recent Photography; Part II: Abstraction, Violation, and Empathy; 5. Photography After the Photograph: Event, Archive, and the Nonsymbolic; 6. Photography, Abstraction, and the Social Production of Space

7. Violence, Photography, and the InhumanConclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index; Series List

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COMPUTERS / Digital Media / Photography Photography -- Influence Photography -- Philosophy PHOTOGRAPHY -- Reference Photography -- Social aspects TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Imaging Sys…