General Information

Language

English.

Published

Berlin ; London : Haus der Kulturen der Welt ; MIT Press, 2016.

Physical Description

322 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Contributors

Contributor

Balsom, Erika, (editor.)

Peleg, Hila, (editor.)

Subjects

Subject

Documentary mass media and the arts.

Documentary films.

Documentary photography.

Bibliographic Information

Responsibility

edited by Erika Balsom and Hila Peleg.

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."

Content

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.

ISBN

0262529068

9780262529068

Holdings

Item Type	Current Location	Collection	Call Number	Volume Info	Shelving Location	Public Note
Book	OSA Archivum Library	Reference collection	709 BAL		Reference	-

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