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in new ways with on-line methods? Can a collective discussion of
imagery produce more scholarly knowledge than just an individual
analysis? Is it possible to analyze electronic images in a scholarly
manner without examining the material object? texture of the paper?
printing technique? style? color? |
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Advantage
of examining the material object Jack Censer, 6-1-03,
3:33 PM |
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the material object Lynn
Hunt, 6-23-03, 10:52 PM |
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RE: Advantage of examining
the material object Vivian Cameron,
7-6-03, 6:28 PM |
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On-line Collaboration Wayne
Hanley, 6-6-03,
9:53 AM |
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On-line Collaboration Barbara
Day-Hickman, 7-1-03,
4:22 PM |
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RE: On-line Collaboration Joan
B. Landes,
7-14-03, 3:28 PM |
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zooming on images Warren
Roberts, 7-2-03, 2:08 PM |
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on-line collaboration Vivian
Cameron, 7-6-03,
6:35 PM |
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on material objects and
digital technology Joan B. Landes,
7-12-03, 5:33 PM |
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Final thoughts Warren
Roberts, 7-19-03, 8:03 AM |
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on-line collaboration Barbara
Day-Hickman,
7-24-03, 4:28 PM |
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Although in
principle the actual thing in itself should be a better
source than any other, in fact digitization offers some
advantages that have yet to be fully exploited. Perhaps
our eventual use of “virtual lightbox” or some
other technique will make this more apparent. The possibility
of isolating certain parts of an image and in particular
the prospect of magnification and zooming in COULD make
it possible in the future to do more with on-line viewing
of images than the naked eye can do with the thing itself.
In addition, the prospect of comparing a multitude of
images as we are trying to do opens up a more serial
kind of analysis—a
kind of Annales school of the image? Seeing the photo
collection at the Estampes Department of the Bibliothèque Nationale in Paris is perhaps
better but the videodisk, for example, with its thousands
of shots, thousands of images, and also some details
is a model of what might be possible in the future. Surely
we can learn something different by comparing images
in larger data bases. The question is what difference
it might make. I know that my own experience was a combination
of the two: I saw an exposition of scores, if not hundreds,
of revolutionary prints at the Musée Carnavalet
in the 1970s, and this opened my eyes to the relevance
of visual imagery. Maurice Agulhon had just published
his book on the Marianne figure and suddenly it all came
together for me in ways it had not before. It was seeing
the multitude of images and seeing the originals in all
their technicolor beauty that opened my eyes.
Videodisk: Images de la Révolution française,
a co-production of the Bibliothèque Nationale
(Paris) and Pergamon Press (London), 1989.
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