Picturing Empire Photography and the Visualization of the British Empire

Name: Picturing Empire Photography and the Visualization of the British Empire
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ISBN: 9780226732336

ISBN-10: 0226732339

ISBN-13: 9780226732336

Edition: 1997

Authors: James R. Ryan

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Coinciding with the extraordinary expansion of Britain's overseas empire under Queen Victoria, the invention of photography allowed millions to see what they thought were realistic and unbiased pictures of distant peoples and places. This supposed accuracy also helped to legitimate Victorian geography's illuminations of the "darkest" recesses of the globe with the "light" of scientific mapping techniques. But as James R. Ryan argues in Picturing Empire, Victorian photographs reveal as much about the imaginative landscapes of imperial culture as they do about the "real" subjects captured within their frames. Ryan considers the role of photography in the exploration and domestication of…

Book details

List price: $68.00
Copyright year: 1997
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 4/11/1998
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 272
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.25" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.782
Language: English

Acknowledgments Abbreviations Introduction 1. Exploring Darkness 2. Framing the View 3. The Art of Campaigning 4. Hunting with the Camera 5. 'Photographing the Natives' 6. Visual Instruction 7. Towards a Conclusion References Bibliography Index