Eyewitnessing
The Uses of Images as Historical Evidence (review)
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 14529063 |
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| Authors | Sharon Corwin (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2002 |
| Volume | 43 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 830-831 |
| Publication date | 2002-10-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Technology and Culture (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0040-165X • E-ISSN: 1097-3729 |
| Publisher | Project MUSE (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1353/tech.2002.0157 |
| OpenAlex | W4255318513 |
| Language | EN |
As we enter an increasingly digital age, the ease with which images can be manipulated and fabricated is becoming all the more apparent. Yet questions concerning the veracity of images are neither new nor specific to digital media. As Peter Burke illustrates in Eyewitnessing, images have a long tradition of distorting the facts. Of what use, then, are images to scholars of history? What types of historical evidence do images provide? Burke sets out to answer these questions. His book is intended to encourage and instruct readers in the historiographic use of images, and it succeeds splendidly on both counts
Epistemology · Computer Science · History · Philosophy · Photography and Visual Culture
| Highly cited | No |
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