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‘Eyewitnessing’? History and Visual Sources
Author(s) -
Horsley Jessica
Publication year - 2009
Publication title -
history compass
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.121
H-Index - 1
ISSN - 1478-0542
DOI - 10.1111/j.1478-0542.2009.00622.x
Subject(s) - field (mathematics) , psychology , visual field , state (computer science) , history , computer science , neuroscience , mathematics , algorithm , pure mathematics
If history has experienced a ‘pictorial’ or visual turn in the past two decades, how widespread is this shift and how deep does it run? What is the relationship of the discipline of history to visual sources? This article assesses the current state of the field by investigating Peter Burke’s book Eyewitnessing . It considers not just the original edition but also its various translations to illuminate aspects of visual sources and the historian’s approach to them.