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April 14, 2013
Richard Barnes, the American photogrpaher, uses the wet plate collodion technology to rephotograph the American Civil War: photographing the re-enactment: people in costume recreating the battle with the use of support vehicles and loudspeakers for the benefit of spectators.
Richard Barnes, Cavalry cede the field to a truck hauling away cannon after a reenactment of the crucial Union victory at the 1864 Battle of Cedar Creek, Virginia. ' 2012.
Does this enable the viewer to look at the world as the early photographers must have seen it? Gettysburg reenactment.' It does make us think about the ways in which we think about and depict the past. Is it also a revisioning the past?
Museums do this all the time and we take their form of depicting the past in exhibitions, artifacts, arranged glass cases, taxidermy and dioramas as normal.
There is a turn back to the 19th century processes---here and here in Australia for instance--- which appear to be associated with the craft of creating hand made photographs than a revisioning Australian history.
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