Amateur Photographers and Historical Imagination, 1885-1918. The Helston Floral Dance in Cornwall and displaying pressgang equipment in Kent both photographed by Sir Benjamin Stone in 1906, fishing for elvers 1900, Indian troops visiting for the coronation of George V camped at Hampton Court 1911, Shepton Mallet Cross, churches and cottages and a crumbling shop named Deakin's Entire in Market Square Manchester 1890, Ordsall Hall Salford 1892 to Essex regiments mustering in Norwich August 1914 or workers scything hay in Lincolnshire and a page from the March 1906 edition of the Amateur Photographer Photographic Record and Survey, the range is extraordinary of mostly archive but some colour photographs. In the late 19th century and early 20th, hundreds of amateur photographers took part in the photographic survey movement in England so that it might be preserved for future generations. In this book, the groundbreaking historical and visual anthropologist Elizabeth Edwards works with an archive of nearly 55,000 photographs taken by 1,000 photographers, mostly unknown until now. She includes more than 120 vibrant images, and this special tome offers new perspectives on the forces that shaped Victorian and Edwardian Britain, as well as on contemporary debates about cultural identity, nationality, empire, material practices, and art. Large paperback, 325 pages, 20 x 25 cm.
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