With their power to create a sense of proximity and empathy, photographs have long been a crucial means of exchanging ideas between people across the globe; this book explores the role of photography in shaping ideas about race and difference from the 1840s to the 1948 Declaration of Human Rights. Focusing on Australian experience in a global context, a rich selection of case studies drawing on a range of visual genres, from portraiture to ethnographic to scientific photographs show how photographic encounters between Aboriginals, missionaries, scientists, photographers and writers fuelled...
With their power to create a sense of proximity and empathy, photographs have long been a crucial means of exchanging ideas between people across t...
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...
This book examines the role of photography as a powerful language of expressing collective identities in Eastern Europe during the period of dramat...
This is the first book to explore the influence of early photography on how the Victorians understood and wrote about thepast, shaping the concept - and even the operation - of memory for future generations.
This is the first book to explore the influence of early photography on how the Victorians understood and wrote about thepast, shaping the concept - a...
