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The camera as historian : amateur photographers and historical imagination, 1885-1918
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Photographic historian Edwards looks at the popularity of the amateur photographic survey movement in England between the mid-1880s and the end of World War I, when over a thousand amateur photogra...
Photographic historian Edwards looks at the popularity of the amateur photographic survey movement in England between the mid-1880s and the end of World War I, when over a thousand amateur photographers took well over 50,000 photographs documenting nearby churches, cottages, and other local features. Edwards sees this movement as a form of popular history.
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- Creator
- Elizabeth Edwards
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- Books
- Language
- English
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- Durham, NC : Duke University Press, 2012
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- 1 online resource (xv, 326 pages) : illustrations
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- 9780822350903, 9780822394631, 0822351048, 0822350904, 9781280119569, 9780822351047, 6613523623, 9786613523624, 128011956X, 0822394634
- OCLC
- ocn742017563, ocn774922870
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
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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