Between the Local, National, and Transnational: Photographic Recording and Memorializing Desire
Human memory, ... albeit quite unconsciously, recollection and imagination will blend when an effort is made to construct a mental picture of the past. A pictorial record in such cases will serve the double purpose of checking vagaries of memory by reference to actual facts, and of recalling to mind, through the powers of suggestion, details that otherwise would be irreclaimable. (Gower et al. 1916, 4)
For the authors of The Camera as Historian (1916), a handbook for survey photographers, quoted above, there was no doubt that their endeavors to make a systematic photographic record that would be a “true pictorial history of the ...
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