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April 01 2012
The Archiving Machine; or, The Camera and the Filing Cabinet
John Tagg
John Tagg
John Tagg is Professor of Art History and Comparative Literature at Binghamton University, State University of New York. His latest book is The Disciplinary Frame: Photographic Truths and the Capture of Meaning (University of Minnesota Press, 2009).
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John Tagg
John Tagg is Professor of Art History and Comparative Literature at Binghamton University, State University of New York. His latest book is The Disciplinary Frame: Photographic Truths and the Capture of Meaning (University of Minnesota Press, 2009).
Online ISSN: 1536-0105
Print ISSN: 1526-3819
© 2012 by Grey Room, Inc. and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
2012
Grey Room (2012) (47): 24–37.
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John Tagg; The Archiving Machine; or, The Camera and the Filing Cabinet. Grey Room 2012; (47): 24–37. doi: https://doi.org/10.1162/GREY_a_00068
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