{"id":93,"date":"2018-05-09T12:33:29","date_gmt":"2018-05-09T16:33:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pressbooks-dev.library.yorku.ca\/dhssinstructorsguide\/?post_type=chapter&p=93"},"modified":"2019-06-12T12:34:10","modified_gmt":"2019-06-12T16:34:10","slug":"historical-image-analysis","status":"publish","type":"chapter","link":"https:\/\/pressbooks-dev.library.yorku.ca\/dhssinstructorsguide\/chapter\/historical-image-analysis\/","title":{"raw":"Historical Image Analysis","rendered":"Historical Image Analysis"},"content":{"raw":"
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Historical Image Analysis as a DHSS Assignment<\/h3>\r\n

Featuring work from Denise Challenger<\/a>'s exhibit\u00a0\u201cPlayin\u2019 Mas, Play and Mas: A pedagogical journey of children and Caribana, 1970-1974<\/a><\/span>\u201d<\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n<\/div>\r\n\r\n[caption id=\"attachment_902\" align=\"alignright\" width=\"211\"]\"\"<\/a> Cindy Sherman, Untitled Film Still #21, 1978[\/caption]\r\n\r\nFor a historian, engaging in image analysis is not an unusual task. There are several image analysis worksheets available online for different levels of learners, including ones from the National Park Service<\/a> (American), the National Archives<\/a> (American), the Canadian War Museum<\/a>, the North Dakota State Government<\/a>, the Illinois State Museum<\/a>, and the\u00a0Virginia Museum of History & Culture<\/a>\u00a0(some worksheets are designed for younger learners but can be adapted for students in higher education).\r\n

Historian and project member Denise Challenger<\/a>\u00a0demonstrated the process of image analysis in her exhibit,\u00a0\u201cPlayin\u2019 Mas, Play and Mas: A pedagogical journey of children and Caribana, 1970-1974<\/a><\/span>\u201d.<\/span>\u00a0In her exhibit, she tracked her\u00a0initial reflections<\/a>\u00a0of photographs in her digitized archive and then engaged in a more structured reflection<\/a> of selected images.<\/p>\r\n

However, the real \"meaning making\" potential for photo analysis in DHSS is that your students can engage in photo analysis with a range of historical images that were not created as digital objects.<\/strong> Digital photos are now so ubiquitous that we can forget that photos that are at least 20 years old, especially popular photos, were not created digitally and were taken in a finite series with unexpected results (i.e. a roll of 24 photos that you had to wait to see until they were developed).<\/p>\r\n

What DHSS can bring to historical image analysis then, is having images themselves - originally digitally or not - available to us on our laptops, phones, or tablets for analysis and, with appropriate permissions<\/a>, \"remixing\" and creatively transforming<\/a>\u00a0them to tell new stories about the past.<\/p>\r\n\r\n

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