Public Information: Desire, Disaster, Document

Public Information: Desire, Disaster, Document confronts one of the most complex issues of our times: how photographic and technologically produced images mediate and define social reality. At issue are definitions of media, the role and responsibility of the individual in society, and the nature of the photographic image. Authors Gary Garrels, Jim Lewis, Christopher Phillips, Sandra S. Phillips, Abigail Solomon-Godeau, Robert R. Riley, and John Weber examine these questions by analyzing the work of fifteen postwar artists working in a variety of media.