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As Anna Pegler-Gordon, an associate professor at the University of Michigan, explained in a piece called Seeing Images in History, we rarely spend time exploring pictures that illustrate history. Most of the time, we focus on the written content "because of the way that images are presented in many historical texts and also because of the way that historians are trained to view images — as illustrations of written history rather than sources of history themselves."
But this seems to be changing as Pegler-Gordon mentioned evidence of a "visual turn" in learning and teaching the subject in the last few years. It looks like more academics and historians now give more attention to visual images. By using photographs to teach, the professor noticed that students often see media as more accessible than written records. "Students themselves mention that images make the past seem more accessible, giving concrete shape to a world that sometimes seems intangible," she added.
As Anna Pegler-Gordon, an associate professor at the University of Michigan, explained in a piece called Seeing Images in History, we rarely spend time exploring pictures that illustrate history. Most of the time, we focus on the written content "because of the way that images are presented in many historical texts and also because of the way that historians are trained to view images — as illustrations of written history rather than sources of history themselves."
But this seems to be changing as Pegler-Gordon mentioned evidence of a "visual turn" in learning and teaching the subject in the last few years. It looks like more academics and historians now give more attention to visual images. By using photographs to teach, the professor noticed that students often see media as more accessible than written records. "Students themselves mention that images make the past seem more accessible, giving concrete shape to a world that sometimes seems intangible," she added.
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24 February 2024
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