TY - JOUR
AU - Taylor, John
AB - Journalism Copyright © 2000 SAGE Publications (London, Thousand Oaks, CA and New Delhi) Vol. 1(3): 366–373 [1464-8849(200012)1:3;366–373;014997] BOOK REVIEWS Book reviews Bonnie Brennen and Hanno Hardt Picturing the Past: Media, History and Photography Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois, 1999. 263 pp. ISBN 0 252 02465 6 Jessica Evans and Stuart Hall Visual Culture: The Reader London: Sage/The Open University, 1999. xviii 1 478 pp. ISBN 0 7619 6248 4 j Reviewed by John Taylor, Senior Lecturer in the History of Art and Design, Manchester Metropolitan University The waste-paper bin in the Oval Office – if it has one – is unlikely to hold even humble documents. And anything autographed is more than likely to be swept from the President’s desk directly to his archive. The number of such archives increases and public money is spent on recording the opinions, the experience and (less methodically) the appearance of politicians and others. Stuff saved in archives becomes the material of history writing and memorializing. As records pile up in some quarters, they are destroyed in others. Libraries and museums of immense antiquity disappear unevenly but at a steady rate in wars or local catastrophes. In addition, material that may interest 
TI - Book Review: Picturing the Past: Media, History and Photography; Visual Culture: The Reader
JF - Journalism: Theory, Practice & Criticism
DO - 10.1177/146488490000100306
DA - 2000-12-01
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SP - 366
EP - 370
VL - 1
IS - 3
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