Photo Archives and the Idea of Nation / / Costanza Caraffa, Tiziana Serena.

Das "lange 19. Jahrhundert" der Nationalstaatenbildung ist auch das Jahrhundert der "Erfindung" der Fotografie wie auch der Geburt der modernen Archivwissenschaften. Die Fotografie wurde bald von den Nationalstaaten in ihrem Bedürfnis nach bildlicher Visualisierung in den Dienst...

Full description

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus eBook-Package 2015
VerfasserIn:
MitwirkendeR:
Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2014]
©2015
Year of Publication:2014
Language:English
Online Access:
Physical Description:1 online resource (346 p.)
Tags: Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Content
  • Foreword
  • Photo Archives and the Idea of Nation
  • Introduction: Photographs, Archives and the Discourse of Nation
  • Photographic Archives and the Idea of Nation: Images, Imaginings, and Imagined Community
  • Photo Archives, Identity, Heritage
  • Photography, the Archive and the Invention of the American West
  • Performing Ethnography / Projecting History: Photography and Irish Cultural Nationalism in Ulster
  • Before the Museum: Photography and the Construction of the Canon of Polish Material Culture
  • Dalmatia in the Visual Narrative. Georg Kowalczyk and Cornelius Gurlitt: An Atlas of Photographs of Dalmatian Monuments
  • Monumenta Historiae Patriae: Marubi’s Photographic Documentation (1858–1970) and the Birth of the Albanian Nation
  • Toward an Iconology of Medieval Studies: Approaches to Visual Narratives in Modern Scholarship
  • Microfilm Services and their Application to Scholarly Study, Scientific Research, Education and Re-Education in the Post-War Period
  • Cultural Heritage, Nation, Italian State: Politics of the Photographic Archive between Centre and Periphery
  • Photo Archives, Revolution, National Heroes
  • “And the Bombs Fell for Many Nights.” Stefano Lecchi’s photographs of the 1849 Siege of Rome in the Cheney Album
  • The Photographic Portrait of Georgi Benkovski, or the De-Archiving of the National Hero
  • Archives and Icons: Constructing Post-Revolutionary Identities in Mexico
  • Photo Archives as Construction
  • “You need not take a camel …”: The Archive of the Afghan Tourist Organization Holly Edwards
  • Compound Nation: Migrant Worker Portraits in the Politics and Photography of 1980s Namibia
  • Nostalgia for the Modern: Archive Fever in Egypt in the Age of Post-Photography
  • Afterword
  • Photographs as Strong History?
  • Contributors
  • Index