L’histoire photographique de l’Amérique selon Robert Taft (Photography and the American Scene, 1938)

This article examines the meanings and uses of “social history” and “historical value” in Robert Taft’s Photography and the American Scene, A Social History 1839-1889 (1938), a classic text still received as a major reference on 19th-century American photography and yet rarely questioned in its own...

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Main Author: François BRUNET
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Laboratoire d’Etudes et de Recherches sur le Monde Anglophone (LERMA) 2011-06-01
Series:E-REA
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Online Access:http://journals.openedition.org/erea/1777