Description: Further DetailsTitle: The Camera as HistorianCondition: NewSubtitle: Amateur Photographers and Historical Imagination, 1885-1918ISBN-10: 0822351048EAN: 9780822351047ISBN: 9780822351047Publisher: Duke University PressFormat: PaperbackRelease Date: 04/11/2012Description: In the late nineteenth century and early twentieth, hundreds of amateur photographers took part in the photographic survey movement in England. They sought to record the material remains of the English past so that it might be preserved for future generations. In The Camera as Historian, the groundbreaking historical and visual anthropologist Elizabeth Edwards works with an archive of nearly 55,000 photographs taken by 1,000 photographers, mostly unknown until now. She approaches the survey movement and its social and material practices ethnographically. Considering how the amateur photographers understood the value of their project, Edwards links the surveys to concepts of leisure, understandings of the local and the national, and the rise of popular photography. Her examination of how the photographers negotiated between scientific objectivity and aesthetic responses to the past leads her to argue that the survey movement was as concerned with the conditions of its own modernity and the creation of an archive for an anticipated future as it was nostalgic about the imagined past. Including more than 120 vibrant images, The Camera as Historian offers new perspectives on the forces that shaped Victorian and Edwardian Britain, as well as on contemporary debates about cultural identity, nationality, empire, material practices, and art.Language: EnglishCountry/Region of Manufacture: USItem Height: 254mmItem Length: 203mmAuthor: Elizabeth EdwardsGenre: Arts & PhotographyBook Series: Objects/HistoriesTopic: History, Society & CultureItem Weight: 1012gRelease Year: 2012 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Publication Name: The Camera as Historian
Title: The Camera as Historian
Subtitle: Amateur Photographers and Historical Imagination, 1885-1918
ISBN-10: 0822351048
EAN: 9780822351047
ISBN: 9780822351047
Release Date: 04/11/2012
Release Year: 2012
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Series: Objects/Histories
Book Title: Camera As Historian : Amateur Photographers and Historical Imagination, 1885-1918
Number of Pages: 344 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Duke University Press
Topic: Europe / Great Britain / Victorian Era (1837-1901), Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Europe / Great Britain / General, History
Publication Year: 2012
Item Height: 0.9 in
Illustrator: Yes
Genre: Social Science, Photography, History
Item Weight: 35.8 Oz
Author: Elizabeth Edwards
Item Length: 10.1 in
Book Series: Objects/Histories Ser.
Item Width: 8.1 in
Format: Trade Paperback
