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Ryan, James R.

 
9781861890092: Picturing Empire: Photography and the Visualization of the British Empire
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ISBN 10 : 1861890095 ISBN 13 : 9781861890092
Editeur : Reaktion Books, 1997

Synopsis

While the cultural history of the British Empire has recently attracted much interest, relatively little attention has been paid to the significance of its visualization. Yet the Empire was pictured across a wide spectrum of imagery, from paintings to postcards, maps to documents. Focusing on the role of photography, this wide-ranging book explores the aesthetics of empire. The development of photography in the Victorian era coincided with the dramatic expansion of the British Empire. Photography assisted in the exploration, surveying and mapping of territory and the representation of imperial landscapes. To audiences hungry for glimpses of a rapidly expanding world, photographs seemed to capture distant realities, rendering them accessible. And while administrators and anthropologists used photography to picture‘racial types’, soldiers and hunters armed themselves with cameras in order to capture photographic ‘trophies’ of natives and animals. Drawing on a broad range of visual imagery, including many previously unpublished photographs, James Ryan shows how photographic practices and aesthetics can express and articulate the ideologies of imperialism.

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À propos de l'auteur

James R. Ryan is Associate Professor of Historical and Cultural Geography at the University of Exeter. His previous books include Picturing Empire: Photography and the Visualization of the British Empire (Reaktion, 1997), Photography and Exploration (Reaktion, 2013). He is the co-editor of New Spaces of Exploration: Geographies of Discovery in the Twentieth Century (2010).

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Éditeur
Reaktion Books
Date d'édition
1997
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1861890095
ISBN 13 
9781861890092
Reliure
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Nombre de pages
272
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Personne responsable
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