Photographs Histories And Meanings

This collection reexamines photographs and their social history, the ideological, ethical, political, and aesthetic forces that inflect interpretation. Review: 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 images are the focus of interdisciplinary enquiry that responds to one of the central issues for scholarly work in the humanities today: the power of visual representations, their haunting effects, and their capacity to perform small acts of cultural translation that challenge what we see and know of others and ourselves. --Gillian Whitlock, Author of Soft Weapons: Autobiography in Transit