Photography in American History
First Year Seminar 1125
Middlebury College, Fall 2005
Wonnacott Commons

"Photographs can describe the past; they have a limited capacity, however, to explain it, no matter how much we wish that they could...."--Martha Sandweiss, Print the Legend

"[H]istory is that impossible thing: the attempt to give an account, with incomplete knowledge, of actions themselves undertaken with incomplete knowledge....[B]y forever attempting to explain we may come, not to an Explanation, but to a knowledge of the limits of our power to explain."--Graham Swift, Waterland.

Professor Kathryn Morse
Munroe 405
kmorse@middlebury.edu
802-443-2436
http://community.middlebury.edu/~kmorse

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Photos:
Earthrise, December 1968, NASA.
Danny Lyon, Tottle House Sit-In, Atlanta Georgia, ca. 1963.
Jacob Riis, Street Arabs in their Sleeping Quarters," ca. 1890.