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April 28, 2010
Ariella Azoulay The Civil Contract of Photography Cambridge, MA: Zone Books, 2008. 574 pp.; 10 color ills.; 101 b/w ills. Cloth $38.95 (9781890951887)
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John Tagg The Disciplinary Frame: Photographic Truths and the Capture of Meaning Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2009. 432 pp.; few b/w ills. Paper $27.50 (9780816642885)
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CrossRef DOI: 10.3202/caa.reviews.2010.45

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Since John Tagg published his first book, The Burden of Representation: Essays on Photographies and Histories (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1988), he has been one of the most recognized figures in photographic theory. He is part of a brilliant generation of Anglo-American authors who emerged from the 1968 political movement, appeared in the public arena in the context of the 1970s New Art History, and whose contribution to a theorization of photography using the...