Historian"s perspective: How photographs and images shape history
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In his book, Peter Berke is available and excitingly tells how the images and history are connected. How do photos and painting confirm and distort historical events? How do visual evidence help historians analyze the past and establish facts? In addition to paintings and photographs, Berk explores posters, advertising, drawings, maps and many other artifacts of visual culture. Peter Berk talks about funny historical facts, the influence of propaganda, religion and cultural attitudes on history. Thanks to this book, you will learn how images help and interfere in historical studies, how they replace meanings and ideas, how to establish the truth.
“Photos and visual evidence are not so much associated with the value of images, but rather with the dominance of words ... This book becomes a stable argument in favor of preserving old -fashioned history, based on texts and constant citation of contexts in which images are nothing without words explaining them. - Times Literary Supplement
“Burk wrote a beautiful book, which became the result of his study of images as sources of historical evidence ... The author is known for the search for connections between languages, cultures and eras, as well as methodologies and disciplines. This book is an example of a wide intellectual search, and it is mandatory for students studying history, culture, fine art, anthropology and cinema. ” - Choice
“This book is especially valuable due to many examples of images that can be used in historical research, as well as because of the consistent presentation of key concepts and theories ... Historians and art critics are strongly recommended to see evidence of history with their own eyes.” - Art Documentation
“As Peter Burke shows in the book "The Highness of the Historian", the images have long been distorted by the facts. What then is the benefits of visual for scientists-historians? What types of historical evidence do images provide? Berk is ready to answer these questions. His book is intended to teach readers the historiographic use of images, and he excellently succeeds in this ... through an impressive set of thematic collections, Berke demonstrates the value of images for historians, while giving instructive warnings about their use ...
... For those who are poorly familiar with the research of the visual, the book "The look of the historian" is an affordable and practical introduction to the historiographic use of visual culture. For art historians and scientists who already have experience in studying visual phenomena, Berke’s book serves as a convincing reminder of a complex relationship between images and history. ” - Technology and Culture
“Photos and visual evidence are not so much associated with the value of images, but rather with the dominance of words ... This book becomes a stable argument in favor of preserving old -fashioned history, based on texts and constant citation of contexts in which images are nothing without words explaining them. - Times Literary Supplement
“Burk wrote a beautiful book, which became the result of his study of images as sources of historical evidence ... The author is known for the search for connections between languages, cultures and eras, as well as methodologies and disciplines. This book is an example of a wide intellectual search, and it is mandatory for students studying history, culture, fine art, anthropology and cinema. ” - Choice
“This book is especially valuable due to many examples of images that can be used in historical research, as well as because of the consistent presentation of key concepts and theories ... Historians and art critics are strongly recommended to see evidence of history with their own eyes.” - Art Documentation
“As Peter Burke shows in the book "The Highness of the Historian", the images have long been distorted by the facts. What then is the benefits of visual for scientists-historians? What types of historical evidence do images provide? Berk is ready to answer these questions. His book is intended to teach readers the historiographic use of images, and he excellently succeeds in this ... through an impressive set of thematic collections, Berke demonstrates the value of images for historians, while giving instructive warnings about their use ...
... For those who are poorly familiar with the research of the visual, the book "The look of the historian" is an affordable and practical introduction to the historiographic use of visual culture. For art historians and scientists who already have experience in studying visual phenomena, Berke’s book serves as a convincing reminder of a complex relationship between images and history. ” - Technology and Culture
Author:
Author:Питер Берк
Cover:
Cover:Hard
Category:
- Category:Arts & Photography
- Category:History & Geography
- Category:Reference books
Publication language:
Publication Language:Russian
Paper:
Paper:Offset
Age restrictions:
Age restrictions:12+
ISBN:
ISBN:978-5-04-169462-3
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