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The Camera as Historian: Amateur Photographers and Historical Imagination, 1885-1918 (Objects/Histories) Classic Literature & Fiction serving up the equivalent ofIn the late nineteenth century and early twentieth, hundreds of amateur photographers took part in the photographic survey movement in England. They sought to record the material remains of the English past so that it might be preserved for future generations. In The Camera as Historian, the groundbreaking historical and visual anthropologist Elizabeth Edwards works with an archive of nearly 55,000 photographs taken by 1,000 photographers, mostly