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Photographs, Histories, and Meanings
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Description for Photographs, Histories, and Meanings
Hardcover. This collection re-examines photographs and their social history, the ideological, ethical, political, and aesthetic forces that inflect interpretation. Editor(s): Perreault, Jeanne; Kadar, Marlene; Warley, Linda. Num Pages: 258 pages, biography. BIC Classification: AJ; HBTB. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 502.
Photographs have shaped public perception and social meaning for the last one hundred and fifty years or more. This collection reexamines photographs and their social history, exploring the ideological, ethical, political, and aesthetic forces that inflect interpretation. The authors here trace shifting historical contexts, intentional or accidental interpretive distortions, and ambiguous and multiple meanings. Collectively, they seek to know how images can be believed, given our awareness of the uncertainty of meaning. The contributors in this collection believe the histories they convey are the stories of our lives. To know the photographs is to know ourselves - with all our ... Read more
Photographs have shaped public perception and social meaning for the last one hundred and fifty years or more. This collection reexamines photographs and their social history, exploring the ideological, ethical, political, and aesthetic forces that inflect interpretation. The authors here trace shifting historical contexts, intentional or accidental interpretive distortions, and ambiguous and multiple meanings. Collectively, they seek to know how images can be believed, given our awareness of the uncertainty of meaning. The contributors in this collection believe the histories they convey are the stories of our lives. To know the photographs is to know ourselves - with all our ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
Number of Pages
258
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780230617704
SKU
V9780230617704
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Ref
99-15
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JEANNE PERREAULT is Professor in the Department of English, University of Calgary, Canada. MARLENE KADAR is Professor in Humanities and Women's Studies, and Interim Director of the Graduate Program in Interdisciplinary Studies at York University in Toronto, Canada. LINDA WARLEY is Associate Professor in the Department of English Language& Literature at the University of Waterloo, Canada. ... Read more
Reviews for Photographs, Histories, and Meanings
"The collection is a compelling exploration of the ambiguities, distortions, and shifts in photographic interpretation and meaning." - Archivaria "What is taken with the photograph?What remains?In these essays a series of iconic documentary imagesare the focus of interdisciplinary enquiry that responds to one of the central issues for scholarly work in the humanities today: the power of ... Read more