The Camera as Historian: Amateur Photographers and Historical Imagination, 1885–1918
- ISBN-10
- 0822351048
- ISBN-13
- 9780822351047
- Category
- History
- Pages
- 326
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2012
- Publisher
- Duke University Press
- Author
- Elizabeth Edwards
Description
"In the camera as historian, the groundbreaking historical and visual anthropologist Elizabeth Edwards works with an archive of neraly 55,000 photographs taken by 1,000 photographers, mostly unknown until now." -- Inside cover.
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