Public History Matters: Media Historians

BBC World Service: The Conversation – The image that changed me.

History often takes for granted the photographers, videographers, and audiographers who capture, preserve, and share history as it happens. Oftentimes, none of what we record is pretty or neatly conceived. But it is the job of the media historian to get the shot or sound clip. It’s then up to the rest of us to make sense of it.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


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