Eleanor M. Hight (ed.)

Colonialist Photography

Imag(in)ing Race and Place
Herausgeber: Hight, Eleanor M; Sampson, Gary D

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Produktbeschreibung

By drawing upon methods from anthropology, literary criticism, geography, imperial history and art history, Hight and Sampson offer a rich source of current ideas about relationship between colonialism and visual representation. Using case studies and recent forms of interpretative analysis, these post-colonial readings provide a thought-provoking analysis of how we imagine race and place.

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An absorbing collection of essays and photographs exploring the relationship between photography and Europe and American colonialism, using case studies and recent forms of interpretive analysis. Now published for the first time in paperback.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 344
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Juni 2002
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 266mm x 173mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 1034g
• ISBN-13: 9780415274951
• ISBN-10: 0415274958
• Artikelnr.: 21260884

Autorenporträt

Gary D. Sampson is Associate Professor of art history at the Cleveland Institute of Art, Ohio. His recent publications include chapters on the photography of Samuel Bourne and Lala Deen Dayal in India Through the Lens . Eleanor M. Hight is Associate Professor of art history at the University of New Hampshire, Durham. She is the author of Picturing Modernism: Moholy-Nagy and Photography in Weimar Germany and Jackson Pollock: A Study in Reception.

Inhaltsangabe

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 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 13 "A better place
to live": Government agency photography and the transformations of the
Puerto Rican Jíbaro