The Resource The camera as historian : amateur photographers and historical imagination, 1885-1918, Elizabeth Edwards
The camera as historian : amateur photographers and historical imagination, 1885-1918, Elizabeth Edwards
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- Summary
- 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.--Publisher description
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- xv, 326 pages
- Contents
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- "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
- Isbn
- 9780822350903
- Label
- The camera as historian : amateur photographers and historical imagination, 1885-1918
- Title
- The camera as historian
- Title remainder
- amateur photographers and historical imagination, 1885-1918
- Statement of responsibility
- Elizabeth Edwards
- Subject
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- Amateurfotografie
- Amatörfotografi -- historia
- Bildreportage
- Dokumentarfotografie
- Dokumentärfotografi -- historia
- Fotografi -- historia
- Fotografie
- Geschichtsbild
- Grande-Bretagne -- Histoire -- 1837-1901 (Victoria)
- Great Britain
- Great Britain -- History -- Victoria, 1837-1901
- Great Britain -- History -- Victoria, 1837-1901
- Großbritannien
- Großbritannien
- History
- Photographie -- Grande-Bretagne -- Histoire
- Photography
- Photography
- Photography -- Great Britain -- History
- Photography -- Great Britain -- History
- 1837-1901
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- 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.--Publisher description
- Cataloging source
- NcD/DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1952-
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Edwards, Elizabeth
- Illustrations
- illustrations
- Index
- index present
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- Series statement
- Objects/histories
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Photography
- Great Britain
- Photographie
- Grande-Bretagne
- Photography
- Photography
- Great Britain
- Amateurfotografie
- Bildreportage
- Dokumentarfotografie
- Geschichtsbild
- Fotografie
- Großbritannien
- Großbritannien
- Photography
- Great Britain
- Fotografi
- Amatörfotografi
- Dokumentärfotografi
- Label
- The camera as historian : amateur photographers and historical imagination, 1885-1918, Elizabeth Edwards
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 305-319) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- 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
- Control code
- 742017563
- Dimensions
- 26 cm.
- Extent
- xv, 326 pages
- Isbn
- 9780822350903
- Lccn
- 2011027454
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- n
- Note
- WorldCat record variable field(s) change: 650, 651
- Other physical details
- illustrations
- System control number
- (OCoLC)742017563
- Label
- The camera as historian : amateur photographers and historical imagination, 1885-1918, Elizabeth Edwards
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 305-319) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- 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
- Control code
- 742017563
- Dimensions
- 26 cm.
- Extent
- xv, 326 pages
- Isbn
- 9780822350903
- Lccn
- 2011027454
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- Note
- WorldCat record variable field(s) change: 650, 651
- Other physical details
- illustrations
- System control number
- (OCoLC)742017563
Subject
- Amateurfotografie
- Amatörfotografi -- historia
- Bildreportage
- Dokumentarfotografie
- Dokumentärfotografi -- historia
- Fotografi -- historia
- Fotografie
- Geschichtsbild
- Grande-Bretagne -- Histoire -- 1837-1901 (Victoria)
- Great Britain
- Great Britain -- History -- Victoria, 1837-1901
- Great Britain -- History -- Victoria, 1837-1901
- Großbritannien
- Großbritannien
- History
- Photographie -- Grande-Bretagne -- Histoire
- Photography
- Photography
- Photography -- Great Britain -- History
- Photography -- Great Britain -- History
- 1837-1901
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