Documentary across disciplines - Balsom, Erika; Peleg, Hila (Cambridge, Massachusetts The Mit Press, 2016)
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.
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.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Keywords: Documentary mass media and the arts; Documentary films; Documentary photography