Photo archives and the idea of nation

Titel: Photo archives and the idea of nation / edited by Costanza Caraffa and Tiziana Serena
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Veröffentlicht: Berlin : De Gruyter, 2015
Umfang: VIII, 346 Seiten : Illustrationen ; 24 cm
Format: Buch
Sprache: Englisch
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ISBN: 9783110331813 ; 3110331810
  • Foreword
  • p. vii
  • Photo Archives and the Idea of Nation
  • p. 1
  • Introduction: Photographs, Archives and the Discourse of Nation
  • p. 3
  • Photographic Archives and the Idea of Nation: Images, Imaginings, and Imagined Community
  • p. 17
  • Photo Archives, Identity, Heritage
  • p. 41
  • Photography, the Archive and the Invention of the American West
  • p. 43
  • Performing Ethnography/Projecting History: Photography and Irish Cultural Nationalism in Ulster
  • p. 59
  • Before the Museum: Photography and the Construction of the Canon of Polish Material Culture
  • p. 77
  • Dalmatia in the Visual Narrative. Georg Kowalczyk and Cornelius Gurlitt: An Atlas of Photographs of Dalmatian Monuments
  • p. 95
  • Monumenta Historiae Patriae: Marubi's Photographic Documentation (1858-1970) and the Birth of the Albanian Nation
  • p. 119
  • Toward an Iconology of Medieval Studies: Approaches to Visual Narratives in Modern Scholarship
  • p. 141
  • Microfilm Services and their Application to Scholarly Study, Scientific Research, Education and Re-Education in the Post-War Period
  • p. 167
  • Cultural Heritage, Nation, Italian State: Politics of the Photographic Archive between Centre and Periphery
  • p. 179
  • Photo Archives, Revolution, National Heroes
  • p. 201
  • "And the Bombs Fell for Many Nights." Stefano Lecchi's photographs of the 1849 Siege of Rome in the Cheney Album
  • p. 203
  • The Photographic Portrait of Georgi Benkovski, or the De-Archiving of the National Hero
  • p. 221
  • Archives and Icons: Constructing Post-Revolutionary Identities in Mexico
  • p. 239
  • Photo Archives as Construction
  • p. 263
  • "You need not take a camel...": The Archive of the Afghan Tourist Organization
  • p. 265
  • Compound Nation: Migrant Worker Portraits in the Politics and Photography of 1980s Namibia
  • p. 279
  • Nostalgia for the Modern: Archive Fever in Egypt in the Age of Post-Photography
  • p. 301
  • Afterword
  • p. 319
  • Photographs as Strong History?
  • p. 321
  • Contributors
  • p. 331
  • Index
  • p. 335