Article ID: CBB189730349

Cover Essay: Reading Ordinary Photographs (2023)

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An unremarkable photograph of a grandstand offers insight into how horse racetrack planners thought about audiences, venues, and documentation. Accounting for not only what the photograph reveals but also how it acts as a specific kind of historical evidence, shows how the history of technology can be enriched by further considering photographic and other kinds of visual and nontextual primary sources.

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Authors & Contributors
Simões, Ana I.
Ana Carneiro, Maria Paula Diogo
Cortada, James W.
Dasgupta, Subrata
Lee, Alexander
Manning, Gideon
Journals
Technology and Culture
British Society for the History of Mathematics Bulletin
Historia Scientiarum: International Journal of the History of Science Society of Japan
History of Meteorology
History of Science
HOST: Journal of History of Science and Technology
Publishers
Taylor & Francis
Leuven University Press
MIT Press
Routledge
Springer International Publishing
Concepts
Historical method
Primary literature (historical sources)
History of technology, as a discipline
Historiography
History of science, as a discipline
Photography
People
Archimedes
Butterfield, Herbert
Tereshkova, Valentina
Newland, James William
Courvoisier, Leopold
Time Periods
19th century
20th century
21st century
16th century
17th century
20th century, early
Places
Great Britain
India
Soviet Union
Germany
Greece
Portugal
Institutions
British Association for the Advancement of Science
International Business Machines Corporation
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