Beschreibung:
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.
Preface xiAcknowledgments xiii1. "Sacred Monuments of the Nation's Growth and Hope": Amateur Photography and Imagining the Past 12. "A Credit to Yourself and Your Country": Amateur Photographers and the Survey and Record Movement 313. Unblushing Realism: Practices of Evidence, Style, and Arachive 794. "To Be a Source of Pride": Local Histories and National Identities 1235. "Doomed and Threatened": Photography, Disappearance, and Survival 1636. "To Quicken the Instincts": Photographs 7. Afterlives and Legacies: An Epilogureas Public History 2097. Afterlives and Legacies: An Epilogue 243Appendix 259Illustrations 269Notes 273Bibliography 305Index 321