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In Rhetorical Exposures, Christopher Carter explores social documentary photography from the nineteenth century to the present to illuminate the political dimensions of photographs that highlight social injustice. Documentary photography aims to capture the material reality of life. In Rhetorical Exposures, Christopher Carter demonstrates how the creation and display of documentary photographsoften now called imagetextsboth invite analysis and raise persistent questions about the political and social causes for the bleak scenes of poverty and distress captured on film. Carter's carefully reasoned monograph examines both formal qualities of composition and the historical contexts of the production and display of documentary photographs. In Rhetorical Exposures, Carter explores Jacob Riis's heart-rending photos of Manhattan's poor in late nineteenth-century New York, the iconic images of tenant farmers in west Alabama from James Agee and Walker Evans's Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, T

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      Publisher: The University of Alabama Press
      Publication Date: 3/30/2015 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780817318628, 978-0817318628
      ISBN10: 0817318623
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      Book Synopsis
      In Rhetorical Exposures, Christopher Carter explores social documentary photography from the nineteenth century to the present to illuminate the political dimensions of photographs that highlight social injustice. Documentary photography aims to capture the material reality of life. In Rhetorical Exposures, Christopher Carter demonstrates how the creation and display of documentary photographsoften now called imagetextsboth invite analysis and raise persistent questions about the political and social causes for the bleak scenes of poverty and distress captured on film. Carter's carefully reasoned monograph examines both formal qualities of composition and the historical contexts of the production and display of documentary photographs. In Rhetorical Exposures, Carter explores Jacob Riis's heart-rending photos of Manhattan's poor in late nineteenth-century New York, the iconic images of tenant farmers in west Alabama from James Agee and Walker Evans's Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, T

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