Photographing Central Asia

Titel: Photographing Central Asia : From the Periphery of the Russian Empire to Global Presence
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Veröffentlicht: Berlin/Boston : De Gruyter ; De Gruyter [Imprint], 2022
Umfang: 1 Online-Ressource (431 p.)
Format: E-Book
Sprache: Englisch
Schriftenreihe/
mehrbändiges Werk:
Welten Süd- und Zentralasiens / Worlds of South and Inner Asia / Mondes de l'Asie du Sud et de l'Asie Centrale ; 13
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ISBN: 9783110754421 ; 9783110754469 ; 9783110754568
  • Acknowledgements
  • p. v
  • Note on transliteration
  • p. ix
  • 1
  • Introduction: "On the margins of the marginal" - Why are there so few specialists in Central Asian photography of the imperial and early Soviet period?
  • p. 1
  • Part I
  • Photography and orientalisms
  • 2
  • Picturing the Other, mapping the Self: Charles-Eugène de Ujfalvy's anthropological and ethnographic photography in Russian Turkestan (1876-1881)
  • p. 39
  • 3
  • Picturing "Russia's Orient": The peoples of Russian Turkestan through the lens of Samuil M. Dudin (1900-1902)
  • p. 63
  • 4
  • The photographic legacy of Alexander N. Samoilovich (1880-1938)
  • p. 91
  • 5
  • Hungarian orientalism as seen through the photographs of György Almásy's second expedition to the Kazakh and Kyrgyz territories in 1906
  • p. 129
  • 6
  • From Siberia to Turkestan: Semirechie in writings and photographs of Vasilii V. Sapozhnikov
  • p. 165
  • 7
  • "Another Turkestan" of senator Konstantin von der Pahlen (1908-1909) and engineer Nikolai M. Shchapov (1911-1913)
  • p. 189
  • Part II
  • Using and reusing photographs
  • 8
  • Pre-revolutionary postcards with views of Turkestan
  • p. 217
  • 9
  • The Aralsk and Kazalinsk regions in early twentieth-century postcard photography: How does it reflect the social history and modern transformation of the Aral Sea backwater?
  • p. 249
  • 10
  • Max Penson: The rise of a Soviet photographer from the margins
  • p. 267
  • 11
  • The expeditions of the Academy for the History of Material Culture to Central Asia in the 1920s and 1930s: An examination of its well-known and unknown photographic collections
  • p. 299
  • 12
  • "Ethnographic types" in the photographs of Turkestan: Orientalism, nationalisms and the functioning of historical memory on Facebook pages (2017-2019)
  • p. 329
  • 13
  • Afterword: Unmarginalising Central Asian Photography
  • p. 399
  • List of figures and tables
  • p. 401
  • Geographic index
  • p. 413
  • Index nominum
  • p. 417
  • Index rerum
  • p. 423