Photo Essays in Rural History
The series Photo Essays in Rural History offers the opportunity to discuss methods of analyzing and interpreting historical images, to focus on images as idiosyncratic historical sources or to look at the causes, forms and consequences of photographic staging. Also of interest are the ways in which photographs are used, for example as a propaganda tool, in the communication of history or in the transmission of family memories. However, photo essays are also a promising starting point for formulating a thesis or addressing a historically relevant question. Photographs can also be used to discuss research interests and their underlying motives.
In the series Photo Essays in Rural History, photography is therefore understood as a cultural, political, aesthetic and social phenomenon that requires historical source-criticism and historical contextualization, but that can also be used as a medium for communicating historical findings.
It is the aim of the series Photo Essays in Rural History to draw attention to the importance of images as historical sources, as objects of research and as a means of communicating historical knowledge. The authors of the photo essays are active in very different geographical areas and practice a variety of thematic and methodological approaches to agricultural history. In this way, we not only want to draw attention to the transnational character of modern agricultural history, but also to highlight its potential as an integrative discipline.
All Photo Essays
Published
Missouri Madonna
Katherine Jellison
No. 1, 2026 - English
Submission of Proposal
Proposals for new photo essays are welcome, they are to be sent to the Editorial Board.
For more information, see the guidelines.
Partners
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