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David Simpson: The iconic image, 29 November 2007
No Caption Needed: Iconic Photographs, Public Culture and Liberal Democracy
by Robert Hariman and John Louis Lucaites.
Chicago, 419 pp., £19, June 2007,978 0 226 31606 2 Show More
by Robert Hariman and John Louis Lucaites.
Chicago, 419 pp., £19, June 2007,
“... photographs, have been commonplace since at least the American Civil War. In No Caption Needed, Robert Hariman and John Louis Lucaites are less concerned with these debates than with the ways in which iconic images have been used to propose and renegotiate various kinds of ‘democratic citizenship’ and ‘civic identity’. Here original truths ... ”
