The work presented on this site explores the epistemological¹ presumptions we make about data presentation,² that it is objective, and unmediated by ideology.
1. I know, a big word, but no better way of stating it. Epistemic? That's just a watered down version, it doesn't convey the full complexity of the nature of knowledge. Cognitive? Na, that simply implies how we physically learn, and not the social and political institutions that determine how that, which is learned, is structured and interpreted.
2. Documentation
Further Reading
The Burden of Representation: Essays on Photographies and Histories
John Tagg
For the uninitiate the Introduction is worth the price of the book. People I’ve had read it say they’ve never look at photos the same way again. My favorite of the essays is A Means of Surveillance: The Photograph as Evidence in Law. And it contains probably the best explication of Foucault’s ideas that I’ve seen.
On Photography
Susan Sontag
Not all that original, but a less jargony, yet not dumbed down, ---- of the explorations and meanings of photography over the past few decades.