The burden of represenation
Tagg, John (1988) The burden of represenation. Basingstoke: Macmillan.
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Contents
Introduction
A Democracy of the Image: Photographic Portraiture and Commodity Production 34
Evidence, Truth and Order: Photographic Records and the Growth of the State 60
A Means of Surveillance: The Photograph as Evidence in Law 66
A Legal Reality: The Photograph as Property in Law 103
God’s Sanitary Law: Slum Clearance and Photography in Late Nineteenth-Century Leeds 11 7
The Currency of the Photograph: New Deal Reformism and Documentary Rhetoric 153
Contacts/Worksheets: Notes on Photography, History and Representation 184
Index A-C
A
Abbott, Berenice 153-4, 156–7, 160, 181
Adamson, Robert 45
Albert, Prince Consort 50
Alien Order Act (1920) 76
Althusser, Louis 22, 24-6, 28–9, 68–70, 89, 166–8, 188
amateur photography 16–20, 104, 160, 189
American Society of Photographic Scientists and Engineers 97
Annan, Thomas 92, 120, 139, 217
Anstey, Edgar 227
Antal, Frederick 22
anthropological photography 11, 12
Arbus, Diane 14
archive, archival mode 13, 64, 92
Arnold, Matthew 19
art history 21, 22, 32, 117-18, 165, 209
Art In Our Time (1939) 157
art photography 13, 15, 17-20, 56, 66–7, 160, 189
Ash Can School 153
Atget, Eugene 160
B
Baker, Robert 122, 129, 149
Ballard, Dr Edward 140, 225
Balzac, Honore de l 76, 1 77
Barnard 0, Dr Thomas John 83–5
Barnes, Thomas 83
Barr, Alfred H. 157
Barthes, Roland I, 3, 4, 7, 98, 160, 189, 204
Baudelaire, Charles 34, 104, 109
Bellocq, E. J. 200
Benjamin, Walter 56, 58, 66, 161
Bennett, Charles Harper 53
Bentham,Jeremy 7, 73, 85, 87
Berger,John 187,189,204
Bertillon, Alphonse 5, 7
Bonaparte, Louis (Napoleon III) 48
Brady, Matthew 112, 168
Brandt, Bill 2
Brecht, Bertolt 178
British Worker, The 65, 119
Browder, Earl 2
Browne, Balfour 221
Brushfield, T. N. 81
Bureau of Reclamation 168
C
calotype 44-5
Cameron, Dr James Spottiswoode 128–31, 135, 137-8, 142-7, 149, 152, 220–1, 222, 224
Cameron, Julia Margaret 48
Carroll, Lewis (Charles Dodgson) 18, 48
carte-de-visite photography 3 7, 48-50, 104, 105, 112
cartography 149
Cassady, Neil 206
Cecil, Lord Robert 147-8
Central Criminal Record Office 76
Chadwick, Edwin 128
Charcot, J. M. 81
Charity Organisation 85
Chartism 7
Chretien, Gilles-Louis 39
cinema 113-14
Clark, T.J. 21-2, 102, 175, 181,
191-2
class, class relations, class struggle 26, 27, 37-8, 61, 68-9, 117, 119, 130–2, 152, 166-7, 193, 195, 198, 210
Clayton,Joseph 221-2
Cleet, James 120
code, coding 102, 187, 188, 190–1, 194
code intemationale de propriiti industrielle, artistique et littiraire 108
Collier, John, Jr 12
collodion process 47-8, 53
Colquhuon, Patrick 72
Committee on Crime Detection (1938) 76
conceptual art 16
Conservative Party 127
copyright law 19, 112-16
Courbet, Gustave 102, 175–6
Cowie, Elizabeth 26
Criminal Justice Act (1948) 76
criminology 5, 11, 89
culture, cultural practice, cultural
production, cultural strategy,
cultural struggle 13, 16, 19, 21, 23-5, 27-32, 36,61,68, 173, 189, 206, 210
D-H
D
Daguerre, L. J. M. 41-5
daguerreotype 37, 42-8, 74
Daily Mirror, The 56
Daumier, Honore 36, 194-5
Delacroix, Eugene 162
Delano, Jack 169
Diamond, Dr Hugh Welch 77-8,
80–1, 92
discipline, disciplinary apparatus
5, 9, 28-9, 62-3, 74, 76, 87,
91, 148
Index
discourse, discursive formation,
discursive practice 4, 23-4,
70, 100, 104, 119, 191-2
Disderi, Andre Adolphe Eugene
48-50, 112
Disfarmer, Mike 18
documentary 8-15, 60, 89, 92, 94,
102-3, 121, 154, 173, 181-2,
195–6
documentation 6, 74, 148
Dreiser, Theodore 153
dry plate 53
Duncan, Dr W. H. 128
E
Eastman, George 17, 54
Eastman Kodak 19
Eco, Umberto 187
Edelman, Bernard 105–7, 113,
115–16
Ehrlich, S. G. 97
Elton, Sir Arthur 227
Engels, Friedrich 136, 1 76-8
Esquirol, J. E. D. 79, 80
Evans, Walker 12-14, 157, 160,
168, 181-2, 195,202,213
evidence 1, 4-6, 8, 12, 60, 65–6,
95, 119, 143, 148
Evrard, Louis Blanquart 112
Extension Service 168
F
Family of Man, The 14, 35, 161
Farm Security Administration
(FSA) 13-14, 168, 170, I 73-
5, 181, 192
Federal Art Project (WPA) 156
Fielding, Henry 72
Forest Service 168
Foster, D. B. 131, 142,225
Foucault, Michel 5, 7, 22, 28-9,
62, 64, 67, 70–1, 81, 85–9, 92,
118-19, 151,165, 171-2, 171-
5, 189,215
Frank, Robert 14,213
Freud, Sigmund 187
Friedlander, Lee 14
G
Galt,John 139
Gladstone-Macdonald Pact
(1906) 134
Glasgow Town Council City
Improvement Trust 139
Goldie, Dr George 128, 132, 140
Gouraud, Franc;ois 43
Gramsci, Antonio 68, 88, 166
Grand Exhibition of Industry
(1855) 49
Great Exhibition (1851) 45, 49
Greenberg, Clement 19, 117
Greenwich Hospital School 82
Grierson, John 8
H
half-tone plate 56, 112, 195
Hall, Stuart 212-13
Hardy, Kier 136
Harkness, Margaret (John Law)
177
Hauron, Lois Ducos du 2
Hegel, G. W. F. 198
hegemony 62, 68, 71, 88, 173, 198
Heinroth, 0. 79
Henry, Sir Edward 7, 75
Hering, Henry 81
Herschel, Sir John 44
Hess, Hans 163
Hill, David Octavius 45
Hine, Lewis 184, 186, 190, 192-3,
195–6, 200
Hirst, Paul 116, 167
Hogarth, William 36, 193
Holbeck Social Reform Union 142
Hooper, Capt. Willoughby
Wallace 92, 217
Hoover, Herbert I 74
House and Garden 156
Housing and Town Planning Act ( 1909) 122
Housing of the Working Classes Act (1890) 125, 131, 136, 137, 142, 145
I-P
I
ideology 24-6, 69-70, 100, 105, 115–16, 159-61, 166-8, 186, 188,190,203,207,211
Ideological State Apparatuses 22, 24-5, 28-9, 68-9, 89, 166
Improvement Acts ( 1870), ( 1877),
(1893) 123
Incorporated Society of Medical
Officers of Health 129
Independent Labour Party 134-
industrialisation of photography
11-12
instrumental photography 5, I I,
20
intellectuals 31, 93-4, 206
lnternationale medizinischphotographische Monatschrift 81
J
Jackobson, Roman I 78
Jackson, William Henry 168
Johnstone, Roderick 83
K
Kautsky, Karl 177
Kautsky, Minna 177
Kerouac, Jack 206
Kodak, The 54, 56, 66
L
Lamartine, Adolphe de 109
Lancet, The 78
Lands Clauses Act ( 1845) 125
Lange, Dorothea 207-9
Lank aster, For bes 146
Lartigue, Jacques-Henri 18
law, legal institutions 6, 19-20,
97-8, 104-8, 110–16
Law,John (Margaret Harkness)
177
Lawson, E. E. 224
Lebrun, Charles 193
Lee, Russell 169, 170, 190
Leeds City Council: Education
Committee; Markets
Committee; Sanitary
Committee; Unhealthy Areas
Sub-Committee 123, 125–7,
130, 132, 137-40, 152
Leeds Ladies’ Sanitary Association
127
Leeds Literary and Philosophical
Society 127
Leeds Mercury, The 121, 123, 127
Leeds Photographic Society 139
Leeds Public Free Library 139
Lmis Slumdom 142
Le-eds Trades Council 127, 136
lei/ll:.iger Stadtanzeiger 41
Lenin, V. I. 68, 176, 178–80
Levy, Julien 157
Liberal Party 126-7
Library of Congress 168
Life 14, 156
Livett, R. A. H. 227
Lloyd, Valerie 193
Local Government Board 122, 124,
137-8, 140,143,223
London, Jack 153-4
Lupton, Frances M. 137,222,223
M
Macherey, Pierre 161, 168, 179,
188
Maguire, Tom 134
Maloney, Tom 213
Manchester Amateur Photographic
Society 139
Manet, Edouard I 02
Marshall Plan 205
Martin Eden 153
Marville, Charles 120
Marx, Eleanor I 77
Marx, Karl 68, 88, 100, 163, I 76-
7, 193
Marxism 16, 22-3, 25-8, 67-8,
177, 180,197,209
Matthewman, Alfred Ernest 142,
226
Mattison, Alfred 142, 226
McCarthyism 2, 14
means of representation see
representation
methodology 22, 32, 165
Metropolitan Police Act (1829) 73
Millbank Prison 82
Millet, Jean-Franc;:ois 207
miniatures 38–9
modernism 15,117,192
Morawski, Stefan 178
Morel, B. A. 81
Morrison, Sir Alexander 80
Mulvey, Laura 26
Munby, Arthur 92,217
Municipal Corporations Act
(1835) 73
Index
Museum of the City of New York
156, 157
Museum of Modern Art, New
York 14, 114, 157
Muybridge, Eadweard 87
N
Nadar (Gaspard Felix
Tournachon) 35-6, 50, 52-3,
114
Napoleon III see Louis Bonaparte
National Geographic Magazine 14
National Research Project of the
WPA 184
Negre, Charles Le 81, 120
New Deal 8–9, 13-14, 168, 181,
186
New Horizons in American Art ( 1936)
157
New York Daily Graphic 56
New York Sun 42
New York Tribune 56
Nietzsche, Friedrich 67, 100, 102
Nouvelle lconographie de la Salpetriere
81
O
Office of War Information 13
O’Grady,James 134
Ordnance Survey 77, 149
P
Panopticon, panopticism 7, 29, 85, 87, 192
Parliament, Select Committees of the House of Commons (1896), ( 1901); Select Committees of the House of Lords (1896), (1901) 6, 138, 142-8
Peel, Sir Robert 73
Pentonville Penitentiary 82
Petzval, Joseph 74
Philip II 201
photographic industry 37, 43-4, 48, 50, 53-4, 63, l05, 111-1’1
Photography/Politics: One 118
Photo League, The 14
physiognomy 77
physionotrace 2, 35, 39
Pickard, Charles 142, 225
Pictorialism 13, 17, 56, 58
Picture Post 213
Pine!, Philippe 80
Police Acts 73
politics, political calculation,
political institutions 27, 30–
1, 62, 71, 95, 101-2, 167, 172,
174-5, 181,189,205,211
Pollock, Griselda 118
Poor Law 62
pornography 104, 201, 203
portraiture 18, 34-59
post-market institutions 19
power, power/knowledge 6-7, 9,
21,28,59,63, 65-7,69-72,
74, 87-9, 92-3, l03, 120, 151,
171-2, 174
Primavera 56
prison records 5, 7, 63, 76-7, 82
Prison Act ( 1952) 76
Privy Council, Medical Department
ofthe 122-3
production, mode of, means of,
relations of 16-17, 19, 25, 30,
39, 47, 50, 60, 66, 73, 99, 105-
6, 113-16, 156, 165, 174
professionalisation 5, 6, 9, 20, 93,
112, 128
Proudhon, Pierre Joseph 88, 193
psychiatric photography 77-81
Pumphrey, William 139
Q-Z
Q
Quarry Hill Insanitary Area 6, 10, 121-6, 130–7
R
Raphael, Max 155-6, 227-8
Ray, Man 153
realism I, 4, 9, 22, 76, 99-101,
104, 116, 144, 154-5, 157, I 74-
83, 191-2, 203
records, record photography 6, 76,
95-8
regime of power, regime of sense,
regime of truth 6, 61, 94-5,
98–9, 101-2, 104, 107, 157,
172-3, 189, 191
Report of the Unhealthy Areas SubCommittee
( 1902-3) 139
24-1
representation 4, 9-11, 16, 23, 24-
7, 30, 32, 38, 59, 69, 99, IOI,
151, 155, 160, 165, 167-8, 174,
188–9, 197, 202, 205,209,211
Resettlement Administration I 3
resistance 92-3
Reynolds, Rev. George 85
rhetoric 11, 187-8
Richardson, Sir BC’njamin 129
Rieg!, Alois 214
Riis,Jacob 92, 120, 152,196,217
Roosevelt, Franklin D. 8, I 1-, I 86,
193
Rosales, Henry 39
Rossini, Gioacchino 36, 50
Rothstein, Arthur 175
Royal Commission on the lloui11g
of the Working Classes ( 1885)
132
Royal Microscopical Society 97
Royal Photographic Society 15, 77
Royal Society 77, I 00
S
Sander, August 196
Sanitary Aid Society 127
Schaick, Charles Van 195
Schapiro, Meyer 22
Select Committees see Parliament
semiology, semiotics 22-3, 98, 188
Side Gallery 192
sign, signification 3, I I, 30, 37,
60, 99-I02, 107, 150, 154, 171,
187-8, 208
silhouette 39
Sloan, John 153
Slum Clearance Acts ( I 868),
(1875) 125
snapshot 34-5, 53-4, 195
Social Democratic Federation 134,
177
social formation 25-6, 63, 118,
163, 177, 189
social history of art 21-2, 117
Socialist League 134
Society of Arts 130, 136
Society for Photographing Relics of
Old London 83
Sontag, Susan 164,171,204
Spence,J o 18
Stalinism 68
Standard Oil, New Jersey 14
state,s tate apparatus 5, 9,2 9,6 1-
2, 67-71, 92, 163, 166
StedmanJones, Gareth 7
Steichen, Edward 14
Stieglitz, Alfred I 3
Stockport Ragged and Industrial
School 81-2
Strand, Paul 195
Stryker, Roy E. 14, 168-70, 174,
181-3, 192-3
subject, the theory of the 98, I 06–
7, 113—14
surveillance 5, 9, 16, 64, 173, 192
suture 20(}-J
Swift, Willie 139, 142, 149-50
Szarkowski,J ohn 14
T
Talbot, William Henry Fox 44—5, 56, 60, 112
talbotype 44—5
technology, technology of power 62-3, 7(}-1, 89, 93, 103, 192, 198
Thomson, John 92, 217
Thoresby Society 139
Three Perspectives on Photography 118
Titian 201
Tolstoy, Count Leo Nikolayevitch
176, 178-80
Tour, Georges De La 196
Tournachon, Gaspard Felix see
Nadar
Town and Country 156
truth see regime of truth
Tydings, Millard 2
U
urban planning, urbanisation 22
V
Vincennes, Imperial Asylum at 81
Vinoy, Marshal 50
W
Wandsworth Prison 82
West Midlands Police 74
wet plate see collodion process
Wilson, Edmund 130, 136–7
women’s movement, the 16
Wood, Nancy 174
Woodburytype 56
Works Progress Administration
(WPA) 156, 184
Wormald, Edmund and Joseph 141-2
XYZ
York Street Clearance Scheme 137
