Photography and Cultural Heritage in the Age of Nationalisms: Europe's Eastern Borderlands (1867-1945)

ISBN-13: 9781472585660 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 262 str.

Ewa Manikowska; Elizabeth Edwards; Jennifer Tucker

Opis

This book examines the role of photography as a powerful language of expressing collective identities in Eastern Europe during the period of dramatic socio-political transformation associated with the slow rise of national and ethnic consciousness, the dawn of empire and the outbreak of the two World Wars.From the 1867 All-Russian Ethnographic Exhibition to the war-time Nazi scientific surveys, this innovative account looks closely at how photographic practices and records were applied, borrowed, appropriated, transmitted to exert or subvert power, and used as a tool in negotiating collective identities. Discussing a wide range of little-known archives, libraries of scientific institutions, learned societies, and professional and amateur photographers, it focuses on those ambitious photographic projects which not only shaped the various national, ethnic or imperial identities but also went to the heart of the idea of Eastern Europe. By juxtaposing photography with other visual and non-visual heritage discourses and practices, this book offers both a new perspective in the field of East European studies and a novel approach to the history of photography.

Spis treści

List of Illustrations1. Introduction2. The Imperial Gaze: Photography and the Cultural Appropriation of the Borderlands3. Unofficial Views: Voluntary Associations, Photographic Surveys and the Quest for National Self-Determination4. Mapping the New Political Order: Cultural Heritage, the Photographic Album and the Post-WWI Peace Negotiations5. 'Imperial Practices': Picturing Polish Official Cultural Heritage in the Iconographic Archive6. Neglected Visions: Lithuanian, Ukranian and Jewish Narratives7. From the Civilizing Mission to Cultural Germanisation: Ostforschung and the Photographic Survey Archive8. Conclusions: Afterlives and LegaciesBibliographyIndex

O autorze

Ewa Manikowska is Assistant Professor at the Institute of Art, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland. She has presented and published many papers and chapters on survey photography and cultural heritage in the Polish lands of the Russian Empire.