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The camera as historian : amateur photographers and historical imagination, 1885-1918 / Elizabeth Edwards.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Edwards, Elizabeth, 1952-
- Series:
- Objects/histories.
- Objects/histories
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Photography--Great Britain--History.
- Photography.
- Great Britain--History--Victoria, 1837-1901.
- Great Britain.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (346 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Durham, NC : Duke University Press, 2012.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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.
- 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:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [305]-319) and index.
- Description based on print version record
- ISBN:
- 9786613523624
- 9781280119569
- 128011956X
- 9780822394631
- 0822394634
- OCLC:
- 774922870
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