Rhetorical exposures : confrontation and contradiction in US social documentary photography /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Carter, Christopher, 1974- (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, [2015]
Series:	Rhetoric, culture, and social critique.
Subjects:	Documentary photography > United States > History. Photography > Social aspects > United States > History. United States > Social conditions. Photojournalists > United States.

Table of Contents:

Writing with light : Jacob Riis's ambivalent exposures
Let us now praise manly men : the antidocumentary heroics of James Agee and Walker Evans
Picturing capital : Ted Streshinsky's travels in "revolutionary" California
The rhetoric of ruins : walking with Walter Benjamin and Camilo Joseb Vergara
Keeping watch : immersion in post-Katrina visual culture.