Photo archives and the idea of nation / edited by Costanza Caraffa and Tiziana Serena.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Caraffa, Costanza, editor.

Serena, Tiziana, editor.

Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Archives--Political aspects.

Archives.

Photograph collections--Political aspects.

Photograph collections.

Photography--Historiography.

Photography.

Historiography.

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

viii, 346 pages : photographs ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Berlin : De Gruyter, [2015]

Summary:

The idea of nation is inseparable from its narrative forms. This book examines photo archives as containers of national narratives and photographs as purveyors of national 'truth.' With their rhetorical power and presumed 'truthfulness,' photographs, since their invention in the age of the nation building in the nineteenth century, have served in the processes of constructing narratives of nationhood. They have been employed to substantiate claims of national and collective identities, and shape hegemonic visions and colonial attitudes. Case studies, from Canada to Namibia, interpreted through different disciplinary lenses, explore how photographic archives function as control devices of the cultural and visual system of the nation. Book jacket.

Contents:

Photo Archives and the Idea of Nation 1

Introduction: Photographs, Archives and the Discourse of Nation / Costanza Caraffa Caraffa, Costanza, Tiziana Serena Serena, Tiziana 3

Photographic Archives and the Idea of Nation: Images, Imaginings, and Imagined Community / Joan M. Schwartz Schwartz, Joan M. 17

Photo Archives, Identity, Heritage 41

Photography, the Archive and the Invention of the American West / Martha A. Sandweiss Sandweiss, Martha A. 43

Performing Ethnography/Projecting History: Photography and Irish Cultural Nationalism in Ulster / Justin Carville Carville, Justin 59

Before the Museum: Photography and the Construction of the Canon of Polish Material Culture / Ewa Manikowska Manikowska, Ewa 77

Dalmatia in the Visual Narrative. Georg Kowalczyk and Cornelius Gurlitt: An Atlas of Photographs of Dalmatian Monuments / Joško Belamaric Belamaric, Joško 95

Monumenta Historiae Patriae: Marubi's Photographic Documentation (1858-1970) and the Birth of the Albanian Nation / Roberto Mancini Mancini, Roberto 119

Toward an Iconology of Medieval Studies: Approaches to Visual Narratives in Modern Scholarship / Bernhard Jussen Jussen, Bernhard 141

Microfilm Services and their Application to Scholarly Study, Scientific Research, Education and Re-Education in the Post-War Period / Rolf Sachsse Sachsse, Rolf 167

Cultural Heritage, Nation, Italian State: Politics of the Photographic Archive between Centre and Periphery / Tiziana Serena Serena, Tiziana 179

Photo Archives, Revolution, National Heroes 201

"And the Bombs Fell for Many Nights." Stefano Lecchi's photographs of the 1849 Siege of Rome in the Cheney Album / Isotta Poggi Poggi, Isotta 203

The Photographic Portrait of Georgi Benkovski, or the De-Archiving of the National Hero / Martina Baleva Baleva, Martina 221

Archives and Icons: Constructing Post-Revolutionary Identities in Mexico / John Mraz Mraz, John 239

Photo Archives as Construction 263

"You need not take a camel...": The Archive of the Afghan Tourist Organization / Holly Edwards Edwards, Holly 265

Compound Nation: Migrant Worker Portraits in the Politics and Photography of 1980s Namibia / Patricia Hayes Hayes, Patricia 279

Nostalgia for the Modern: Archive Fever in Egypt in the Age of Post-Photography / Lucie Ryzova Ryzova, Lucie 301

Photographs as Strong History? / Elizabeth Edwards Edwards, Elizabeth 321.

Notes:

International conference proceedings.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.

ISBN:

3110331810

9783110331813

OCLC:

904240843

Publisher Number:

99963029019