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Guest Opinion: Preserving Local History, Patricia J. Fanning
Guest Opinion: Preserving Local History, Patricia J. Fanning
Patricia J. Fanning
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Creating The Back Ward: The Triumph Of Custodialism And The Uses Of Therapeutic Failure In Nineteenth Century Idiot Asylums, Philip M. Ferguson
Creating The Back Ward: The Triumph Of Custodialism And The Uses Of Therapeutic Failure In Nineteenth Century Idiot Asylums, Philip M. Ferguson
Philip M. Ferguson
"My focus in this chapter is on the origin of the back ward rather than its demise. Where did the “back wards” that [Burton] Blatt and [Senator Robert] Kennedy witnessed come from in the first place? What 3 exactly were those “antecedents of the problems observed” that Blatt cited? This chapter reviews that history and argues that, in fact, there is a specific narrative to the evolution of the institutional “back ward” as an identifiable place where people with the most significant intellectual disabilities were to be incarcerated and largely forgotten."
The Young White Faces Of Slavery, Mary Niall Mitchell
The Young White Faces Of Slavery, Mary Niall Mitchell
Mary Niall Mitchell
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Visual Testimony: Lee Miller’S Dachau, Sharon Sliwinski
Visual Testimony: Lee Miller’S Dachau, Sharon Sliwinski
Sharon Sliwinski
Photographic Ambivalence And Historical Consciousness, Michael S. Roth
Photographic Ambivalence And Historical Consciousness, Michael S. Roth
Michael S Roth
This essay focuses on three topics that arose at the Photography and Historical Interpretation conference: photography’s incapacity to conceive duration; photography and the “rim of ontological uncertainty;” photography’s “anthropological revolution.” In the late nineteenth century, blindness to duration was conceptualized as the cost of photographic precision. Since the late twentieth century, blindness to our own desires, or inauthenticity, has been underlined as the price of photographic ubiquity. These forms of blindness, however, are not so much disabilities to be overcome as they are aspects of modern consciousness to be acknowledged. The engagement with photography’s impact on historical consciousness gives rise …
Imagining La Capital: Photography And La Chica Moderna, Mexico City, 1933, Ageeth Sluis
Imagining La Capital: Photography And La Chica Moderna, Mexico City, 1933, Ageeth Sluis
Ageeth Sluis
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