No caption needed : iconic photographs, public culture, and liberal democracy /
Hariman, Robert.
Lucaites, John Louis.
Chicago, Ill. ; London : University of Chicago Press,
2007.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 307-400) and index.
Public culture, icons, and iconoclasts -- The borders of the genre : Migrant mother and the Times Square kiss -- Performing civic identity : flag raisings at Iwo Jima and Ground Zero -- Dissent and emotional management : Kent State -- Trauma and public memory : accidental napalm -- Liberal representation and global order : Tiananmen Square -- Ritualizing modernity's gamble : the Hindenburg and Challenger explosions -- Conclusion: Visual democracy.
Popular culture
Political culture
Photographs
Visual communication
Rhetoric
Mass media
Democracy
Photojournalism