IsisCB Explore

Article ID: CBB351981455

Seeing History in 2-D: A Tool Kit for Interpreting Images (October 2021)

Ott, Cindy (Author)

Technology and Culture
Volume: 62
Issue: 4
Pages: 1199-1216

URI: https://muse.jhu.edu/article/819776

DOI: 10.1353/tech.2021.0158

Outside Links

WorldCat

Google Scholar

JSTOR

Academia.edu

Illustrations Fine arts History of technology, as a discipline Interpretation American Indians; Native Americans; First Nations of the Americas Photography Research methods

While many historians, and their students, possess great enthusiasm for the world of images, many fail to use images to their fullest potential as historic sources. The goal of this guide is to provide historians with theoretical and practical tools to help them analyze visual sources and to pass on that knowledge. With this guide in hand, they will be able to interpret visual sources that are vital to, yet under-utilized in, their work. They will also become savvier about using visual sources to communicate their own research and ideas. "Seeing History in 2-D" includes a step-by-step guide for analyzing visual elements within the picture frame and it offers tips to situate images in a broader context, that is, outside the picture frame. With this article in hand, historians and their students will have an accessible and easy-to-read guide to help them cross disciplines and interpret images, which have always been core to how people have made sense of each other and the world around them.

...More

Citation URI

https://data.isiscb.org/isis/citation/CBB351981455/

Citations Indexes

Similar Citations

Article Laurence F. Gross; (1981)
The Importance of Research Outside the Library: Watkins Mill, A Case Study (/isis/citation/CBB046504584/)

Book Bert Winther-Tamaki; (2022)
Tsuchi: Earthy Materials in Contemporary Japanese Art (/isis/citation/CBB986972023/)

Book Sailor, Rachel McLean; (2014)
Meaningful Places: Landscape Photographers in the Nineteenth-Century American West (/isis/citation/CBB001422363/)

Book Nicole Dawn Strathman; (2020)
Through a Native lens: American Indian photography (/isis/citation/CBB335028160/)

Article Klaus Staubermann; (2018)
Musem Research Databases for the History of Science and Technology (Research Brief) (/isis/citation/CBB139799230/)

Article Jens Ivo Engels; (July 2022)
Rhythm Analysis: A Heuristic Tool for Historical Infrastructure Research (/isis/citation/CBB181771307/)

Article Nelson Arellano-Escudero; (2022)
Introduction: Advances in the Research of the History of Solar Energy Technologies (/isis/citation/CBB030957550/)

Book Weber, Heike; Martina Heßler; (2018)
Provokationen der Technikgeschichte Zum Reflexionszwang historischer Forschung (/isis/citation/CBB302255822/)

Article Ljunggren, Inger; (1984)
Företagsarkivet - ett teknikhistoriskt källmaterial i farozonen (The corporate archive - a technology-historical source material in the danger zone) (/isis/citation/CBB137725944/)

Article Jeffrey Manuel; (January 5, 2021)
Technical Literature and the Text-Searchable: The History of Technology and the Digitized Turn (/isis/citation/CBB405590078/)

Article Martha Fleming; (2021)
Embodied ephemeralities: Methodologies and historiographies for investigating the display and spatialization of science and technology in the twentieth century (/isis/citation/CBB705578883/)

Article Douglas O'Reagan; Lee Fleming; (April 2018)
The FinFET Breakthrough and Networks of Innovation in the Semiconductor Industry, 1980–2005: Applying Digital Tools to the History of Technology (/isis/citation/CBB629034304/)

Article Jaakko Suominen; Antti Silvast; Tuomas Harviainen; (April 2018)
Smelling Machine History: Olfactory Experiences of Information Technology (/isis/citation/CBB669892660/)

Article Marthe Fjellestad; (2022)
Photography in the Arctic Archipelago during the First International Polar Year, 1882–1883 (/isis/citation/CBB131981398/)

Article Allison Marsh; (October 2022)
Fellows Online: The User Experience (/isis/citation/CBB776066182/)

Article Benjamin Gross; (October 2022)
Research in the Time of COVID: Virtual Fellowships at the Linda Hall Library (/isis/citation/CBB482995334/)

Article Benjamin Gross; Allison Marsh; (October 2022)
Going Digital: The Research Library and the Pandemic (/isis/citation/CBB591235349/)

Chapter Hoffmann, Christoph; (2003)
The Pocket Schedule: Note-Taking as a Research Technique: Ernst Mach's Ballistic-Photographic Experiments (/isis/citation/CBB000330787/)

Article Scott Kushner; (2023)
Cover Essay: Reading Ordinary Photographs (/isis/citation/CBB189730349/)

Book Beegan, Gerry; (2007)
The Mass Image. A Social History of Photomechanical Reproduction in Victorian London (/isis/citation/CBB001201134/)

Comments

{{ comment.created_by.username }} on {{ comment.created_on | date:'medium' }}