> Rebecca Phipps wrote:
>
> Hello all.
>
> Does anyone have any theoretical or methodological suggestions as to
> analyzing or interpreting photographs? I am working with a collection
> of 34,000 glass plate negatives, all of which came from one
> photography studio (three photographers) that operated from 1862 to
> 1968 in Leavenworth, Kansas. The vast majority of the photos are
> studio portraits and I would like to develop an exhibit focusing on
> "the family" as seen through these portraits.
Do you know the names of the subjects? Can you trace individuals/families
through time?
And, FWIW, see my various papers, _Reading Photographs_ at
http://php.indiana.edu/~tkavanag/home.html
tk
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