Edwards / Thomas The Camera as Historian

Amateur Photographers and Historical Imagination, 1885-1918
1. Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-0-8223-9463-1
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 344 Seiten

Reihe: Objects/Histories

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Edwards, Elizabeth

Thomas, Nicholas

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Fotografie Fotografie: Geschichte und Sammlungen
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte

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

Über Autor(innen)

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.