Elizabeth Edwards is Professor and Senior Research Fellow, University of the Arts London.
'I would like to recommend [the book] not only to anthropologists but to anyone with an interest in historical photographs and their representation.'Source'A sensitive and provocative book.'Choice'Edwards is clearly an expert in her field, with a wide theoretical and practical grasp of the role of photographic archives in museum collections. The bibliography is excellent, and the text is always well-written and closely argued Very useful and thought-provoking.'The Art Book'Raw Histories deserves wide readership for many reasons. While there are parts that are challenging due to the density and complexity of the ideas, this book should become essential reading for scholars and students in a variety of visual disciplines and heritage institutions this book is in itself 'raw history' at its best. [The book] stimulates such questions, and thus exposes not only the rawness and complexity of photography as a form, but the agency of us all in framing, containing and releasi