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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Caraffa, Costanza, Author.

Contributor:

Caraffa, Costanza, editor.

Serena, Tiziana, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Photograph collections.

Art--Historiography.

Art.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (356 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Berlin, Germany : De Gruyter, 2015.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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 genommen. Nach dem II. Weltkrieg, dem Zerfall der kolonialistischen Systeme und schließlich dem Fall der Berliner Mauer erlangten nationale Fragen erneut Aktualität - nun in einem globalen Rahmen. Die Beiträge in diesem Band untersuchen den Zusammenhang zwischen Fotografie/Fotoarchiven und der Idee der Nation, wobei das Objektiv sich nicht auf einzelne Ikonen, sondern auf die weitreichende Dimension des Archivs richtet.

The connective tissue of the nation

Contents:

Front matter

Content

Foreword

Introduction: Photographs, Archives and the Discourse of Nation

Photographic Archives and the Idea of Nation: Images, Imaginings, and Imagined Community

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

“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

“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 1980's Namibia

Nostalgia for the Modern: Archive Fever in Egypt in the Age of Post-Photography

Photographs as Strong History?

Contributors

Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed February 12, 2015).

ISBN:

3-11-039003-5

3-11-033183-7

OCLC:

922639458