Exhibition Considers Photographs as Historical Documents and What They Tell about British Society

There's a photo show currently at Cantor at Stanford that looks interesting. Here's the website connection to the show and a bit of the blurb on it...
http://museum.stanford.edu/news_room/BritishPhotos.html

"Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University presents “Private and Public: Class, Personality, Politics, and Landscape in British Photography” from January 3 to April 6, 2008. This exhibition, from the Cantor Arts Center's collection, explores the special qualities of the British as revealed in photographs: their obsession with class, individuality, the city, and the countryside. The exhibition, on view in the Lynn Krywick Gibbons Gallery, includes works by Julia Margaret Cameron, Peter Henry Emerson, Francis Frith, and Bill Brandt.
“Photographs frequently combine the social with the aesthetic, and British photographs may do so more than most,” said Peter Stansky, Professor of History at Stanford University.
...For the past several years Stansky has held a colloquium in which students considered the use of various art forms as historical documents and what they tell about a society.
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