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Disillusioned

Paperback • 2016 • 1. edition

Disillusioned

By Jordan Bear

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About the book

How do photographs compel belief and endow knowledge? To understand the impact of photography in a given era, we must study the adjacent forms of visual persuasion with which photographs compete and collaborate. In photography's early days, magic shows, scientific demonstrations, and philosophical games repeatedly put the visual credulity of the modern public to the test in ways that shaped, and were shaped by, the reality claims of photography. These venues invited viewers to judge the reliabil...Show more

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9780271065021

Publisher

Pennsylvania State University Press

Published year

2016

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1

Original title

Disillusioned

Format

Paperback

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