Through A Lens Darkly: Urban Schools and the Photographic Imagination

• Autores: Eric Margolis
• Localización: Bifurcaciones: revista de estudios culturales urbanos, ISSN-e 0718-1132, Nº. 7, 2008
• Idioma: inglés
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    Tecnología avanzada que incluye imágenes digitalizadas, bases de datos de búsqueda y recuperación e Internet han hecho posible la puesta en línea de grandes colecciones de fotografía histórica, creando así bases de datos accesibles compuestas por millones de imágenes históricas. Este artículo examina una recopilación de fotografías de escuelas urbanas, seleccionadas de archivos en línea. El objetivo es ver cómo la imagen de la escuela urbana ha cambiado con el tiempo. El análisis de las fotografías requiere obtener tanta información como sea posible sobre las imágenes, de modo que para construir un contexto lógico para entender las se utiliza una triple estructura, estudiando la evidencia información objetiva, factual, documental, provista por la fotografía o su contexto-; la interpretación deducciones construidas sobre evidencia circunstancial y contexto, que pueden ser claramente verificados por y para otros-; y la especulación atribuciones subjetivas que extienden la interpretación basada en menor evidencia concreta, o reacción emocional ante la imagen. Los periodos históricos considerados incluyen el siglo XIX, el cambio de siglo, los años de la Depresión y las guerras mundiales y la década de 1960. Se discuten tópicos relacionados con la disciplina escolar, la autoridad pedagógica, el currículum explícito y oculto, género, raza y etnia.

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    Advancing technology that includes digitized images, search and retrieval databases, and the Internet has made it possible for major historical photograph collections to go on-line thus creating searchable data bases of millions of historic images. This paper examines a selection of photographs of urban schools culled from on-line photograph archives. The goal is to see how the image of the urban school has changed over time. Analysis of photographs requires obtaining as much information as possible about the images so as to build a logical context for understanding, I employ a three-fold structure examining Evidence objective, factual, documentary information provided by the photograph or its context; Interpretation deductions built on circumstantial evidence and context that can be clearly verified to and by others; and Speculation subjective attributions that extend the interpretation based on less concrete evidence, or emotional reaction to the image. Historical periods examined include: 19 century turn-of-the-century, the depression and war years, and the 1960's. Issues related to school discipline, pedagogical authority, overt and hidden curricula, gender, race and ethnicity are discussed Advancing technology that includes digitized images, search and retrieval databases, and the Internet has made it possible for major historical photograph collections to go on-line thus creating searchable data bases of millions of historic images. This paper examines a selection of photographs of urban schools culled from on-line photograph archives. The goal is to see how the image of the urban school has changed over time. Analysis of photographs requires obtaining as much information as possible about the images so as to build a logical context for understanding, I employ a three-fold structure examining Evidence objective, factual, documentary information provided by the photograph or its context; Interpretation deductions built on circumstantial evidence and context that can be clearly verified to and by others; and Speculation subjective attributions that extend the interpretation based on less concrete evidence, or emotional reaction to the image. Historical periods examined include: 19 century turn-of-the-century, the depression and war years, and the 1960's. Issues related to school discipline, pedagogical authority, overt and hidden curricula, gender, race and ethnicity are discussed