The camera as historian : amateur photographers and historical imagination, 1885-1918

The camera as historian : amateur photographers and historical imagination, 1885-1918 / Elizabeth Edwards.

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 groundb...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Edwards, Elizabeth, 1952-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Durham, NC : Duke University Press, 2012.
Series:Objects/histories.
Subjects:
Photography > Great Britain > History.
Great Britain > History > Victoria, 1837-1901.
History.
Table of 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.

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