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Thank you We sneak analyzing primary sources seeing images Why

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do images themselves make good primary sources Images are awesome

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Primary sources they're all so different If you sight on

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images a primary source of paper you know he was

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going to go let's that's different Interesting number one they

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give us details that writing cannot give us So you

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know let's go back to that civil war diary Someone's

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you know writing they like watched all this violence and

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like all these terrible things happen Ball block maybe big

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picture things Maybe they're talking about their emotions but pictures

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we get to see like super mundane details of life

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that someone might not think were worth writing down I

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had my you know coffee and doughnut this morning But

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then you're looking at the painting for sculpture whatever and

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someone's drinking coffee and eating a doughnut eh So we

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now know what people ate and drank it that time

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So these kinds of mundane details tend to come out

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more and paintings and in in in imagery than they

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do in writing But at the same time they might

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flying you know there's anachronistic things things that you know

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People put in a painting that weren't actually happening And

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at that time another reason images are great Primary sources

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is because they kind of tend tio create more emotion

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in the in the viewer people tend to be really

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moved by art on by images maybe more than by

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words even s o They can kind of bring us

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back to a specific feeling that someone might have might

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have had at the time Oh one last thing is

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that language is in a barrier with images We talked

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about this with writing I can't read ancient you know

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aramaic but i can interpret a kn image maybe not

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perfectly because i wasn't there during that time but i

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don't need to be able to speak a certain language

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to interpret it could be a picture of an aramaic

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uh java code or something and be able to tackle

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the brilliance of his coat when our images a bad

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thing like winter they misleading what we do with photo

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shop Now people have been doing with images forever so

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you know painters sculptors would actually lie with their art

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and you know the same way you have biases and

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writing You can have biases and images that doesn't change

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it all What you can do is compare a bunch

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of images from the same time period if every single

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woman who was painted at that time looks exactly the

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same Probably not Every single woman who's painted that time

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looks exactly the same Probably it was just like the

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style and that's how it was that's Interesting in and

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of itself But you do Have to be careful You

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don't want to say like all women were blonde in

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you know sixteen seventy two when you know that just

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might be how they were how they were painting it

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And then of course we also have to remember that

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images just don't usually last very well They're not preserved

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well it's much easier to preserve you know something that

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was written than ah painting like you don't go into

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museum and like there's like so so many protections over

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painting Son camp Beyond this can't be on and that's

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because they give someone touches it it gets destroyed so

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preserving documents written documents is also an issue But like

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once you digitized that you know the words of the

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words where is with an image to really get you

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know the the richness of the image you you just

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can't Why use an image as a primary resource What

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are the differences from tech sources Can images be biased

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How can you tell if they are wire imagesmore scarce 00:03:27.516 --> [endTime] than text sources

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