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Photography and transport history
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Photography has been recording different aspects of human activity since the early nineteenth century. Additional innovations since then have rendered it less expensive, less cumbersome and more accessible to users. Today, the universe of photographs is immense. In this paper, I offer a theoretical approach to the use of photography in mobility and transport history. I argue that photography is much more than a mere illustrative resource and that it can be used as a primary source that provides visual materiality to aspects of transportation in the past (subjects, objects and landscapes), which can complement information found in written sources. Moreover, I speculate that photography may have a double role: as a vehicle that transports observers to faraway locations and ideas and landscapes back to observers; and as a tool for territorial appropriation of peripheral territories by core regions.
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Funding Information: The author wishes to acknowledge the financial support provided by FCT -Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, I.P. and the institutional and academic support provided by CIUHCT - Interuniversity Research Centre for the History of Sciences and Technology, Almada, Portugal (UID/HIS/00286), and the Department of History of the University of York, York, United Kingdom. Funding Information: This work was funded by national funds through FCT - Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, I.P. (PIDDAC/OE), within the Unit CIUHCT (UIDB/00286/2020). Publisher Copyright: © The Author(s) 2022.
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methodology Ontology territorial appropriation theory Geography, Planning and Development History Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) Transportation