| Collation |
322 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
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text txt rdacontent |
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unmediated n rdamedia |
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volume nc rdacarrier |
| Bibliog. |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Note |
This book emerges from the Berlin Documentary Forum, a program for the production and presentation of contemporary and historical documentary practices in an interdisciplinary context. |
| Contents |
The documentary attitude / Erika Balsom, Hila Peleg -- Bruises and blushes: photography 'beyond' anthropology / Christopher Pinney -- 'The cruel radiance of what is' / Lucien Castaing-Taylor, Véréna Paravel, and Ben Rivers in conversation -- 'A cage of information, ' or, what is a biometric diagram? / Zach Blas -- Interview in perspective I: the man with a tape recorder / Sylvère Lotringer -- Photography is not served: 'The family of man' and the human condition / Ariella Azoulay -- 'Now that's Brecht at last!': Harun Farocki's observational films / Volker Pantenburg -- Didactic elegy / Ben Lerner -- Reading between the images / Christa Blümlinger -- Montage against all odds / Antonia Majaca and Eyal Sivan in conversation -- No man's land, every man's home: Clemens von Wedemeyer documentary aporia / Evgenia Giannouri -- Interviews in perspective 2: dying documented / Sylvère Lotringer -- Narrative, 'evidence vérité, ' and the different truths of the modern trial documentary / Stella Bruzzi -- The right to one's self-image / Sohrab Mohebbi -- Data visualization and documentary's (in)visible frontiers / Kris Fallon. |
| Summary |
Contemporary engagements with documentary are multifaceted and complex, reaching across disciplines to explore the intersections of politics and aesthetics, representation and reality, truth and illusion. Discarding the old notions of 'fly on the wall' immediacy or quasi-scientific aspirations to objectivity, critics now understand documentary not as the neutral picturing of reality but as a way of coming to terms with reality through images and narrative. This book collects writings by artists, filmmakers, art historians, poets, literary critics, anthropologists, theorists, and others, to investigate one of the most vital areas of cultural practice: documentary. |
| Note |
Gift of the Estate of Norman Wilkinson. |
| Subject |
Documentary mass media and the arts.
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Documentary films.
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Documentary photography.
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Documentary films. fast (OCoLC)fst00896079 |
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Documentary mass media and the arts. fast (OCoLC)fst01736377 |
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Documentary photography. fast (OCoLC)fst00896093 |
| Alt Author |
Balsom, Erika, editor.
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Peleg, Hila, editor.
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| ISBN |
0262529068 |
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9780262529068 |
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