| Description |
xiv, 354 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 25 cm |
| Contents |
Introduction. Photography and the geographical imagination / Joan M. Schwartz and James R. Ryan -- Part I. Picturing Place -- 1. La Mission Héliographique: architectural photography, collective memory and the patrimony of France, 1851 / M. Christine Boyer -- 2. Retracing the outlines of Rome: intertextuality and imaginative geographies in nineteenth-century photographs / Maria Antonella Pelizzari -- 3. Visualizing eternity: photographic constructions of the Grand Canyon / David E. Nye -- 4. Family as place: family photograph albums and the domestication of public and private space / Deborah Chambers -- Part II. Framing the Nation -- 5. Picturing nations: landscape photography and national identity in Britain and Germany in the mid-nineteenth century / Jens Jäger -- 6. Capturing and losing the 'lie of the land': railway photography and colonial nationalism in early twentieth-century South Africa / Jeremy Foster -- 7. Constructing the state, managing the corporation, transforming the individual: photography, immigration and the Canadian National Railways, 1925-30 / Brian S. Osborne -- Part III. Colonial Encounters -- 8. Emperors of the gaze: photographic practices and productions of space in Egypt, 1839-1914 / Derek Gregory -- 9. Mapping a sacred geography: photographic surveys by the Royal Engineers in the Holy Land, 1864-68 / Kathleen Stewart Howe -- 10. Home and empire: photographs of British families in the Lucknow Album, 1856-57 / Alison Blunt -- 11. Negotiating spaces: some photographic incidents in the Western Pacific, 1883-84 / Elizabeth Edwards -- Epilogue -- 12. Wunderkammer to World Wide Web: picturing place in the post-photographic era / William J. Mitchell |
| Summary |
The advent of photography opened up new worlds to 19th century viewers, who were able to visualize themselves and the world beyond in unprecedented detail. But the emphasis on the photography's objectivity masked the subjectivity inherent in deciding what to record, from what angle and when. This text examines this inherent subjectivity. Drawing on photographs that come from personal albums, corporate archives, commercial photographers, government reports and which were produced as art, as record, as data, the work shows how the photography shaped and was shaped by geographical concerns |
| Analysis |
Aufsatzsammlung |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Photography in geography.
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Documentary photography.
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Architecture -- Aesthetics.
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Architecture and society.
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Photography, Artistic.
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Photography -- Philosophy.
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Architectural photography.
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Landscape photography.
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Landscape photography -- Social aspects.
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Landscape photography -- History.
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Human ecology.
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Human geography.
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| Genre/Form |
Aufsatzsammlung
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| Author |
Ryan, James R.
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Schwartz, Joan.
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| LC no. |
2003284177 |
| ISBN |
1860647510 |
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1860647529 paperback |
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