<p><p></p><p>This book argues for a renewed understanding of the fundamentally uncanny quality of the medium of photography. It especially makes the case for the capacity of certain photographs—precisely through their uncanniness—to contest structures of political and social dominance. The uncanny a
Silent Witness: the Civil War Through Photography and Its Photographers
✍ Scribed by Field, Ron
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
- Year
- 2017
- Tongue
- English
- Category
- Library
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✦ Synopsis
Cover; Title Page; Dedication; Contents; Introduction; Chapter 1 Opening Shots, 1859â#x80;#x93;61; Chapter 2 Photography on the Home Front: â#x80;#x9C;Pictures may be taken by the thousandâ#x80;Œâ#x80;#x9D;; Chapter 3 Photography in Camp and Barracks: â#x80;#x9C;There is an ambrotypist in campâ#x80;Œâ#x80;#x9D;; Chapter 4 Photography at the Front: â#x80;#x9C;Views of grim-visaged warâ#x80;Œâ#x80;#x9D;; Chapter 5 Photography in Maps and Documents: â#x80;#x9C;So great was the demand for mapsâ#x80;Œâ#x80;#x9D;; Chapter 6 The Camera with the Navy: â#x80;#x9C;We had photographers & visitors aboardâ#x80;Œâ#x80;#x9D;; Chapter 7 Closing Shots, 1865; Afterword; Glossary of Technical Terms.
✦ Table of Contents
Cover
Title Page
Dedication
Contents
Introduction
Chapter 1 Opening Shots, 1859â#x80
#x93
61
Chapter 2 Photography on the Home Front: â#x80
#x9C
Pictures may be taken by the thousandâ#x80
Ή#x80
#x9D
Chapter 3 Photography in Camp and Barracks: â#x80
#x9C
There is an ambrotypist in campâ#x80
Ή#x80
#x9D
Chapter 4 Photography at the Front: â#x80
#x9C
Views of grim-visaged warâ#x80
Ή#x80
#x9D
Chapter 5 Photography in Maps and Documents: â#x80
#x9C
So great was the demand for mapsâ#x80
Ή#x80
#x9D
Chapter 6 The Camera with the Navy: â#x80
#x9C
We had photographers & visitors aboardâ#x80
Ή#x80
#x9D
Chapter 7 Closing Shots, 1865
Afterword
Glossary of Technical Terms. Notes & BibliographyIndex
Acknowledgments
eCopyright.
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