Rhetorical Exposures - Confrontation and Contradiction in Us Social Documentary Photography

Klappentext 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. Christopher Carter demonstrates how the creation and display of documentary photographs both invite analysis and raise persistent questions about the political and social causes for the bleak scenes of poverty and distress captured on film.In Rhetorical Exposures, Christopher Carter explores social documentary photography from the nineteenth century to the present in order to illuminate the political dimensions and consequences of photographs taken and selected to highlight social injustice.

About the author

Christopher Carter is an associate professor and director of composition in the English Department at the University of Cincinnati. He is the author of Rhetoric and Resistance in the Corporate Academy and a past editor of Workplace: A Journal for Academic Labor. His essays have appeared in College English, JAC, Rhetoric Review, and Works and Days.

Product details

• Authors: Christopher Carter
• Publisher: The University of Alabama Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.04.2015
• EAN: 9780817318628
• ISBN: 978-0-8173-1862-8
• No. of pages: 216
• Dimensions: 159 mm x 229 mm x 19 mm
• Series: Rhetoric, Culture & Social Critique; Albma Rhetoric Cult & Soc Crit; Rhetoric, Culture, and Social; Albma Rhetoric Cult & Soc Crit; Rhetoric, Culture, and Social Critique; Rhetoric Culture and Social Cr
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Media, communication > Journalism