Establishes why industrial photographs are primary visual evidence while also recording the photographer's selective viewpoint.
The introduction defines the evidentiary method of the book before the photographic tour.
Peachee treats her photographs as time-bounded visual archaeology: several documented distillery structures had already disappeared, deteriorated, been salvaged, or been repurposed, so the images preserve conditions that cannot be assumed to survive.
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Introduction: A Visual Archaeology of Kentucky Bourbon Distilleries
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