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left to discover about the crowd in the French Revolution? Can
we contribute to the issues raised by Rudé, Soboul, and
Andrews over the last 30 years? Is the crowd a new topic for representation
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question 4 Jack Censer, 6-12-03, 4:46 PM |
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can we learn about the crowd Lynn Hunt, 6-23-03, 11:04
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RE:
what can we learn about the crowd Barbara Day-Hickman,
7-15-2003,
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RE:
what can we learn about the crowd Jack Censer, 7-17-2003,
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Response
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7-21-03, 8:03 AM |
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Responses
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7-19-03, 10:31 AM |
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RE: Response to Warren
and Final Remarks Barbara Day-Hickman,
7-25-03, 1:14 PM
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Response
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to strongly endorse Warren’s comments and even extend
them. As he has thoughtfully
indicated, images—here coupled to texts—can
take up questions that can elude us otherwise. Essentially,
the crowd, for us to understand its motives, has to be
studied with less evidence than one would want. First,
most in this illiterate crowd cannot leave a record.
Thus, it is up to police reporting, observers, and image-makers
to help us understand the crowd. And these bystanders
have their own mental framework as well as the constrictions
of a medium that distances us from the crowd. Yet we
customarily work through the limits of textual materials
to get at our object. Why not images as evidence? I suggest
that they have their own problems but that they can furnish
vital information. In this area, as Warren implies, we
will learn much about the psychology of the crowd as
well as the internal dynamics of its behavior if we can
examine numerous images of the same event and if we can
understand better the conventions of image-makers both
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