The Camera as Historian
Amateur Photographers and Historical Imagination, 1885-1918
1st Edition
Published on 11. April 2012
344 pages
978-0-8223-9463-1 (ISBN)
Description
Photographic historian Edwards looks at the popularity of the amateur photographic survey movement in England between the mid-1880s and the end of World War I, when over a thousand amateur photographers took well over 50,000 photographs documenting nearby churches, cottages, and other local features. Edwards sees this movement as a form of popular history.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Durham, NC
United States
Edition type
Digital original
Illustrations
121 photographs (duotones), 1 table
121 photographs (duotones), 1 table
File size
12,75 MB
ISBN-13
978-0-8223-9463-1 (9780822394631)
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The Camera As Historian
Amateur Photographers and Historical Imagination, 1885-1918
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The Camera As Historian
Amateur Photographers and Historical Imagination, 1885-1918
Book
04/2012
Duke University Press
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Person
Elizabeth Edwards is Professor of Photographic History and Director of the Photographic History Research Centre at De Montfort University in Leicester. From 1988 until 2005, she was Head of Photograph and Manuscript Collections at the Pitt Rivers Museum at the University of Oxford, where she was also a Lecturer in Visual Anthropology. Edwards is the author of Raw Histories: Photographs, Anthropology, and Museums; editor of Anthropology and Photography, 1860-1920; and a co-editor of Photography, Anthropology and History; Visual Sense: The Cultural Reader; and Sensible Objects: Colonialism, Material Culture and the Senses.
Content
Preface xi
Acknowledgments xiii
1. "Sacred Monuments of the Nation's Growth and Hope": Amateur Photography and Imagining the Past 1
2. "A Credit to Yourself and Your Country": Amateur Photographers and the Survey and Record Movement 31
3. Unblushing Realism: Practices of Evidence, Style, and Arachive 79
4. "To Be a Source of Pride": Local Histories and National Identities 123
5. "Doomed and Threatened": Photography, Disappearance, and Survival 163
6. "To Quicken the Instincts": Photographs 7. Afterlives and Legacies: An Epilogureas Public History 209
7. Afterlives and Legacies: An Epilogue 243
Appendix 259
Illustrations 269
Notes 273
Bibliography 305
Index 321
Acknowledgments xiii
1. "Sacred Monuments of the Nation's Growth and Hope": Amateur Photography and Imagining the Past 1
2. "A Credit to Yourself and Your Country": Amateur Photographers and the Survey and Record Movement 31
3. Unblushing Realism: Practices of Evidence, Style, and Arachive 79
4. "To Be a Source of Pride": Local Histories and National Identities 123
5. "Doomed and Threatened": Photography, Disappearance, and Survival 163
6. "To Quicken the Instincts": Photographs 7. Afterlives and Legacies: An Epilogureas Public History 209
7. Afterlives and Legacies: An Epilogue 243
Appendix 259
Illustrations 269
Notes 273
Bibliography 305
Index 321
