The Burden of Representation

Essays on Photographies and Histories

Bibliographic Data

ID23398686
EditorsJohn Tagg (0000-0001-9477-6579)
Year1988
Publication date1988-01-01
Open AccessYes
TypeBOOK
VenueBurden of Representation (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherBloomsbury Publishing plc (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1007/978-1-349-19355-4
OpenAlexW4232979233
Open LibraryOL37439284M
ISBN9781349193554
LanguageEN
Citations received473

Photographs are used as documents, evidence, and records every day in courtrooms, hospitals, and police work, on passports, permits, and licenses. But how did such usages come to be established and accepted, and when? What kinds of photographs were seen seen as purely instrumental and able to function in this way? What sorts of agencies and institutions had the power to give them this status? And more generally, what conception of photographic representation did this involve, and what were its consequences?

Function (biology) · Political science · Politics · Power (physics) · Public relations · Representation (politics) · Work (physics) · Engineering · History · Law · Photography and Visual Culture · Documentary photography · Philosophy · Photographic criticism · Photography · Social aspects · Social aspects of Photography