‘Forward from Wigan Pier’
Remaking Documentary Photography in the 1930s
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21158501 |
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| Authors | Simon Dell (Department of Art History and World Art Studies, University of East Anglia, Norwich Research Park, Norwich, UK, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2018 |
| Volume | 19 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 168-188 |
| Publication date | 2018-05-04 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Visual Culture in Britain (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1471-4787 • E-ISSN: 1941-8361 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/14714787.2018.1466723 |
| OpenAlex | W2809422125 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 7 |
This article reconsiders the status of documentary photography by shifting enquiry from the making of the exposure to the processes that make the results of that act public. Instead of granting that a photograph functions in a semantic field and asking ‘How did this signify?’, this article explores the question: ‘How did this have the opportunity to signify?’ This question is addressed by exploring the agency of editors and publishers in the rather fraught production of George Orwell’s The Road to Wigan Pier, the first edition of which featured a suite of thirty-three photographs
Archaeology · Art · Art history · Media studies · Photography · Pier · Social science · Sociology · Suite · Visual arts · Cinema and Media Studies · History · Photography and Visual Culture · Visual Culture and Art Theory
| Highly cited | No |
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