The new power strategy required a tool of continuous, comprehensive, and all-encompassing surveillance, capable of rendering everything visible, as long as it could maintain its own invisibility. The police institution provided a method of control that could exist inside the …
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Hegemony over and in the State Ideological Apparatuses. During the 1880s and 1890s, photography experienced a dual technical revolution. This era witnessed the mass production of affordably printed half-tone blocks and the introduction of simple, portable photographic equipment like the …
The portrait of Mr. Henry Rosales exemplifies the typical product that dominated the markets in the early 19th century, competing with the earliest forms of photography. A considerable number of miniaturists, producing around thirty to fifty portraits annually at affordable …
Common observation that a day hardly passes without encountering a photograph. From towering billboards to news snapshots, magazine covers to storefront displays, and an array of posters, images surround us. Yet, amidst this visual deluge, there’s a distinct category of …
Examining dominant representations of photographic practice in the United States during the periods of 1968 and 1978 also sheds light on the context in Britain when the research for these essays began. In Britain, various residual documentary practices emerged as …
The photographers of the Historical Section within the Division of Information of the Resettlement Administration, which later became part of the Farm Security Administration and the Office of War Information, played a crucial role beyond merely depicting social and economic …
The concept of documentary emerged during a distinct phase in the history of capitalist societies, marking a shift in the struggle over realist rhetoric and its deployment. Coined by film critic John Grierson in 1926, the term encompassed more than …