Cover Essay: Reading Ordinary Photographs
- 1 January 2023
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Project MUSE in Technology and Culture
- Vol. 64 (1), 1-6
- https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.2023.0053
Abstract
An unremarkable photograph of a grandstand offers insight into how horse racetrack planners thought about audiences, venues, and documentation. Accounting for not only what the photograph reveals but also how it acts as a specific kind of historical evidence, shows how the history of technology can be enriched by further considering photographic and other kinds of visual and nontextual primary sources.Keywords
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