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Objects/histories eBook Series

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  • The Camera as Historian

    Amateur Photographers and Historical Imagination, 1885-1918

    by Elizabeth Edwards ...
    Series series Objects/histories
    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 ... Read more

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    The Life and Times of New York's Legendary Chelsea Hotel

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    Winner of the National Award for Arts Writing: “If there were a course in Chelsea Hotel-iana, this would be the textbook” (The New York Times).It’s where Dylan Thomas lived his last days, Bob Dylan wrote Blonde on Blonde, and Arthur C. Clarke wrote 2001: A Space Odyssey. It is memorialized by many of its famous inhabitants: Andy Warhol filmed Chelsea Girls there, and Leonard Cohen wrote Chelsea ... Read more

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  • The Last Camel Charge

    The Untold Story of America's Desert Military Experiment

    by Forrest Bryant Johnson ...
    “A fascinating story, telling aspects of the American West that most of us know little about.”—True West MagazineIn the mid-nineteenth century, the U.S. Army was on the verge of employing a weapon that had never before been seen on its native soil: a cavalry mount that would fare better than both mules and horses in the American Southwest...Against the Mojave in the Arizona Territory, against the ... Read more

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  • Daguerreotypes

    Fugitive Subjects, Contemporary Objects

    by Lisa Saltzman ...
    In the digital age, photography confronts its future under the competing signs of ubiquity and obsolescence. While technology has allowed amateurs and experts alike to create high-quality photographs in the blink of an eye, new electronic formats have severed the original photochemical link between image and subject. At the same time, recent cinematic photography has stretched the concept of ... Read more

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  • Colonialist Photography

    Imag(in)ing Race and Place

    Edited by Eleanor M. Hight, Gary D. Sampson ...
    Colonialist Photography is an absorbing collection of essays and photographs exploring the relationship between photography and European and American colonialism. The book is packed with well over a hundred captivating images, ranging from the first experiments with photography as a documentary medium up to the decolonization of many regions after World War II.Reinforcing a broad range of Western ... Read more

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  • Julia Margaret Cameron’s ‘fancy subjects’

    Photographic allegories of Victorian identity and empire

    by Jeffrey Rosen ...
    Nominated for the William MB Berger Prize for British Art History 2017.The Victorians admired Julia Margaret Cameron for her evocative photographic portraits of eminent men like Tennyson, Carlyle and Darwin. However, Cameron also made numerous photographs that she called 'Fancy subjects', depicting scenes from literature, personifications from classical mythology, and Biblical parables from the ... Read more

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  • Faces of the Civil War Navies

    An Album of Human and Confederate Sailors

    by Ronald S. Coddington ...
    Explore the human side of the Civil War through archival images and biographical sketches of Confederate and Union sailors.During the American Civil War, more than one hundred thousand men fought on ships at sea or on one of America's great inland rivers. There were no large-scale fleet engagements, yet the navies, particularly the Union Navy, did much to define the character of the war and affect ... Read more

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  • Flash!

    Photography, Writing, and Surprising Illumination

    by Kate Flint ...
    Flash! presents a fascinating cultural history of flash photography, from its mid-nineteenth century beginnings to the present day. All photography requires light, but the light of flash photography is quite distinctive: artificial, sudden, shocking, intrusive, and extraordinarily bright. Associated with revelation and wonder, it has been linked to the sublimity of lightning. Yet it has also been ... Read more

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