Visual Plague Photographic Database
Tue 22 October 2019
Alison Richard Building
In this seminar, Dr Christos Lynteris will discuss the challenges in putting together the online photographic database of the project Visual Representations of the Third Plague Pandemic and ways in which this allows one to search a global archive of images.
Access to database: https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/275905
Readings:
Lynteris, C. and Prince, R. J. (2016) ‘Anthropology and Medical Photography: Ethnographic, Critical and Comparative Perspectives’, Visual Anthropology, 29(2): 101-117, https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/08949468.2016.1131104.
Evans, N. H. A., Poleykett, B. and Engelmann, L. (2016) ‘Fragments of the plague’, Limn, 6, https://limn.it/articles/fragments-of-plague/
Please contact karolina.kuberska@thisinstitute.cam.ac.uk if you have trouble accessing the readings.
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