Umfang:
Online-Ressource (342 p)
ISBN:
9780415274968
Inhalt:
Colonialist Photography is an absorbing collection of essays and photographs exploring the relationship between photography and European and American colonialism. The book is packed with well over a hundred captivating images, ranging from the first experiments with photography as a documentary medium up to the decolonization of many regions after World War II.Reinforcing a broad range of Western assumptions and prejudices, Eleanor M. Hight and Gary D. Sampson argue that such images often assisted in the construction of a colonial culture
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Cover; COLONIALIST PHOTOGRAPHY; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of figures; Acknowledgments; Notes on contributors; 1 Introduction: Photography, "race", and post-colonial theory; 2 Laying ghosts to rest; 3 Rewriting the Nubian figure in the photograph: Maxime Du Camp's ""cultural hypochondria"; 4 ""A pure labor of love": A publishing history of The People of India; 5 Unmasking the colonial picturesque: Samuel Bourne's photographs of Barrackpore Park; 6 Picturing alterity: Representational strategies in Victorian type photographs of Ottoman men
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7 The many lives of Beato's "beauties"8 Colonial collecting: French women and Algerian cartes postales; 9 Photography and the emergence of the Pacific cruise: Rethinking the representational crisis in colonial photography; 10 Advertising paradise: Hawai'i in art, anthropology, and commercial photography; 11 Capturing race: Anthropology and photography in German and Austrian prisoner-of-war camps during World War I; 12 Germaine Krull and L'Amitié noire: World War II and French colonialist film
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13 "A better place to live": Government agency photography and the transformations of the Puerto Rican JíbaroSelect bibliography; Figure credits; Index
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 9781136473876
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 9780415274951
Weitere Ausg.:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Colonialist Photography : Imag(in)ing Race and Place
Sprache:
Englisch
Schlagwort(e):
Electronic books
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