Rhetorical Exposures : Confrontation and Contradiction in US Social Documentary Photography.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (216 pages)
- Rhetoric, Culture, and Social Critique Series .
- Rhetoric, Culture, and Social Critique Series .
Intro -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Writing with Light: Jacob Riis's Ambivalent Exposures -- 2. Let Us Now Praise Manly Men: The Antidocumentary Heroics of James Agee and Walker Evans -- 3. Picturing Capital: Ted Streshinsky's Travels in "Revolutionary" California -- 4. The Rhetoric of Ruins: Walking with Walter Benjamin and Camilo José Vergara -- 5. Keeping Watch: Immersion in Post-Katrina Visual Culture -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index.
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Documentary photography-United States-History. Photography-Social aspects-United States-History. Photojournalists-United States. United States-Social conditions.