Departmental Papers (ASC)
Document Type
Journal Article
Date of this Version
January 2006
Publication Source
Popular Communication: The International Journal of Media and Culture
Volume
4
Issue
1
Start Page
3
Last Page
20
DOI
10.1207/s15405710pc0401_2
Abstract
In this essay I address how photographs function across different realms of popular experience. Tracking assumptions about the use of photographs in religion, art, advertising, law, politics, and journalism, I argue that the easy transportability of the photograph and claims to its indexical force hide its role in blurring the realms that constitute popular experience. Such blurring takes place even when the experience involved might have real consequences for the body politic, creating a need to better consider how photographs function differently in the various contexts that put them to use.
Copyright/Permission Statement
This is an Author's Accepted Manuscript of an article published in Popular Communication: The International Journal of Media and Culture, 2006, © Taylor & Francis, available online at: http://www.tandfonline.com/10.1207/s15405710pc0401_2.
Recommended Citation
Zelizer, B. (2006). What's Untransportable About the Transport of Photographic Images?. Popular Communication: The International Journal of Media and Culture, 4 (1), 3-20. https://doi.org/10.1207/s15405710pc0401_2
Date Posted: 04 March 2008
This document has been peer reviewed.