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The importance of representation, on plural photography and history
The importance of representation, on plural photography and history
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A heavyweight foundational work that analyzes photography and the power system! "A collection of photography theory that is the most important."
——Professor Guo Lixin of the School of Communication, National Chengchi University/Guide to the special article The first release of the Yimu Book Department of Yingyan Society!
Contains the preface and postscript of the new Chinese version!
What gives photography the privilege of evoking "truth"? This book shakes the belief in photography as a type of "documentation"-photography never leads to truth, but to power.
Art historian John Tagg (John Tagg) has insight into the various power mechanisms hidden in photography, as well as the meaning production and truth system established accordingly. He examines the hidden side of the "history of photography", discussing how "photography" has developed rapidly under capitalism and the expansion of government functions since the nineteenth century, how it has formed dense social monitoring and discipline, and how it has been controlled by the ruling class. provide services for the necessary social order.
● "The history of photography has no unity. This history looms through the entire field of institutional spaces."
● "Whenever the photographer is ready to expose, every piece of equipment is engraved with the silent trace left by power, which is reproduced in countless images."
● "Photographs are never 'proof' of history; they are historical things in themselves."
Tiger pays attention to the forms of photography practice that have not been included in the history of photography in the past. He analyzes the power mechanisms that people are accustomed to-hospitals, prisons, police, courts and government organizations, and explores the use of image records as "archives" and "evidence", and then constructs " various modes and rhetoric of reality.
Tiger pointedly pointed out: "Truth itself is power. … We must forget some unbelievable traditional claims of record-"struggle for" "truth", or "support" "truth", and realize that we should put This battle is directed at the rules that operate in our society."
Foucault once said that power is the most obvious and best concealed. When we explore the structural relationship between photography and power, we will find that everything reproduced by images is no longer a compliment, but a heavy submission...
"The Weight of Representation" has been widely quoted and discussed since its publication, and it has brought very important thinking resources in the critical and in-depth interpretation of photography, as well as the development of "plural" photography and various historical views of history.
——Professor Guo Lixin of the School of Communication, National Chengchi University/Guide to the special article The first release of the Yimu Book Department of Yingyan Society!
Contains the preface and postscript of the new Chinese version!
What gives photography the privilege of evoking "truth"? This book shakes the belief in photography as a type of "documentation"-photography never leads to truth, but to power.
Art historian John Tagg (John Tagg) has insight into the various power mechanisms hidden in photography, as well as the meaning production and truth system established accordingly. He examines the hidden side of the "history of photography", discussing how "photography" has developed rapidly under capitalism and the expansion of government functions since the nineteenth century, how it has formed dense social monitoring and discipline, and how it has been controlled by the ruling class. provide services for the necessary social order.
● "The history of photography has no unity. This history looms through the entire field of institutional spaces."
● "Whenever the photographer is ready to expose, every piece of equipment is engraved with the silent trace left by power, which is reproduced in countless images."
● "Photographs are never 'proof' of history; they are historical things in themselves."
Tiger pays attention to the forms of photography practice that have not been included in the history of photography in the past. He analyzes the power mechanisms that people are accustomed to-hospitals, prisons, police, courts and government organizations, and explores the use of image records as "archives" and "evidence", and then constructs " various modes and rhetoric of reality.
Tiger pointedly pointed out: "Truth itself is power. … We must forget some unbelievable traditional claims of record-"struggle for" "truth", or "support" "truth", and realize that we should put This battle is directed at the rules that operate in our society."
Foucault once said that power is the most obvious and best concealed. When we explore the structural relationship between photography and power, we will find that everything reproduced by images is no longer a compliment, but a heavy submission...
"The Weight of Representation" has been widely quoted and discussed since its publication, and it has brought very important thinking resources in the critical and in-depth interpretation of photography, as well as the development of "plural" photography and various historical views of history.
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