Visual History

Visual History is an emerging especially within the modern history and contemporary history research field, which considered images ( static and dynamic or electronically generated and linked ) both as sources as well as independent objects of historical research and the with the visuality of history as with historicity of the visual deals.

Visual History is characterized by a broad, interdisciplinary approach to the visual in history. It combines historical analysis with specific knowledge and analytical methods from art history and art theory and those from neighboring disciplines, such as philosophy (especially phenomenology and semiotics ), anthropology and ethnography, anthropology and media studies. Similar approaches can be found in the framework of the German historical science under the names Historical Image customer, Historical image research. In the Anglo -Saxon world to find overlaps with the Visual Studies, Visual Culture Studies or Visual Anthropology.