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The author of the essay, Ulrich Keller, challenges the traditional literary bias of historians by drawing on a wealth of pictorial materials from scientific diagrams to photographs, press illustration and academic painting to create a new and different historical account of the Crimean War. This visual history emphasizes the careful aesthetic scripting of the war for popular mass consumption at home.
With their exclusive focus on written sources, historians have consistently overlooked this visual dimension of the Crimean War. Photo-historian Ulrich Keller challenges the traditional literary bias by drawing on a wealth of pictorial materials from scientific diagrams to photographs, press illustration and academic painting. The result is a new and different historical account which emphasizes the careful aesthetic scripting of the war for popular mass consumption at home.
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