Camera As Historian - Amateur Photographers and Historical Imagination, 1885-1918

Informationen zum Autor Elizabeth Edwards Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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

Product details

• Authors: Elizabeth Edwards, Edwards Elizabeth
• Assisted by: Nicholas Thomas (Editor)
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 11.04.2012
• EAN: 9780822351047
• ISBN: 978-0-8223-5104-7
• No. of pages: 344
• Series: Objects/Histories; Objects/Histories
• Subjects: Guides > Hobby, home > Photography, filmmaking, video filmmaking; Humanities, art, music > History; Social sciences, law, business > Ethnology > Ethnology; Fotografie, Europäische Geschichte, Vereinigtes Königreich, Großbritannien, Archaeology / Anthropology, HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, PHOTOGRAPHY / History