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The camera as historian : amateur photographers and historical imagination, 1885-1918 / Elizabeth Edwards.
LIBRA TR57 .E37 2012
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Edwards, Elizabeth, 1952-
- Series:
- Objects/histories
- Objects/histories : critical perspectives on art, material culture, and representation
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Photography--Great Britain--History.
- Photography.
- Great Britain.
- History.
- Great Britain--History--Victoria, 1837-1901.
- Physical Description:
- xv, 326 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 27 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Durham [N.C.] : Duke University Press, 2012.
- Contents:
- "Sacred monuments of the nation's growth and hope" : amateur photography and imagining the past
- "A credit to yourself and your country" : amateur photographers and the survey and record movement
- Unblushing realism : practices of evidence, style, and archive
- "To be a source of pride" : local histories and national identities
- "Doomed and threatened" : photography, disappearance, and survival
- "To quicken the instincts" : photographs as public history
- Afterlives and legacies : an epilogue.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780822350903
- 0822350904
- 9780822351047
- 0822351048
- OCLC:
- 742017563
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