Product Description: Photography, Anthropology and History examines the complex historical relationship between photography and anthropology, and in particular the strong emergence of the contemporary relevance of historical images. Thematically organized, and focusing on the visual practices developed within anthropology as a discipline, this book brings together a range of contemporary and methodologically innovative approaches to the historical image within anthropology...read more

Product Description: "This book will provoke intellectually, ideologically, and emotionally loaded responses in the U.S., Germany, and Israel. Barnouw’s critique of the ‘enduringly narrow post-Holocaust perspective on German guilt and the ensuing fixation on German remorse’ questions taboos that the political and cultural elites in those three countries would rather leave alone...read more

Using photographs from a broad range of topics, shows students how to analyze and use photographs as documentary sources. (view table of contents)

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Photographs of the Gettysburg battlefield, taken during the days immediately following the battle and over the next few years, accompanied by detailed commentaries, provide a reconstruction of the scene and the pivotal 1863 battle

Product Description: In this work Robert M. Levine undertakes two separate and important tasks: to provide the first overview of the history of photography in Latin America until the advent of the cheap cameras that permitted mass photography, and to analyze the photographic record for clues to the use of the images as historical documents...read more

Offers a broad perspective of major American photographers and their role in shaping and clarifying perceptions of past history from the Civil War to the Depression