The Camera as Historian: Amateur Photographers and Historical Imagination, 1885-1918 by Edwards, Elizabeth

The Camera as Historian: Amateur Photographers and Historical Imagination, 1885-1918

In the late nineteenth century and early twentieth, hundreds of amateur photographers took part in the photographic...
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The Camera as Historian: Amateur Photographers and Historical Imagination, 1885-1918 by Edwards, Elizabeth

The Camera as Historian: Amateur Photographers and Historical Imagination, 1885-1918

¥8,394

The Camera as Historian: Amateur Photographers and Historical Imagination, 1885-1918

¥8,394
Author: Elizabeth Edwards
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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.

Author: Elizabeth Edwards
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 04/11/2012
Pages: 344
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 2.20lbs
Size: 9.90h x 8.00w x 0.90d
ISBN: 9780822351047


Review Citation(s):
Choice 11/01/2012
Library Journal 04/01/2012

About the Author

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.




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