Camera Caucasica : networks of photographic practices in the transimperial Caucasus / Dominik Gutmeyr-Schnur

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gutmeyr-Schnur, Dominik, 1987- author.

Series:

Imperial encounters in Russian history

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Historiography and photography--Caucasus.

Historiography and photography.

Photography--Caucasus--History.

Photography.

Caucasus--History--19th century.

Caucasus.

Caucasus--History--20th century.

Genre:

History

Physical Description:

1 online resource : color illustrations

Place of Publication:

Boston : Academic Studies Press, 2026

Summary:

"Set against the Caucasus, at the crossroads of Russian, Ottoman, and Iranian imperial power in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, Camera Caucasica shows that photographs are the product of complex networks of cultural traditions, political developments, and economic processes. The book tells the stories of Italian mountaineers, Austrian art historians, Swedish oil barons, Georgian nurses, Armenian court photographers, and Russian anthropologists—individuals who together shaped the development of photography in the Caucasus. By centering on cross-border collaboration and entanglement, Camera Caucasica presents not only the history of photography but also the history of the region itself, bringing a seemingly peripheral area into the heart of a global field of research"-- De Gruyter Brill

Contents:

A global invention and circulating knowledge : The technological aspect of photographic practices

“Typical natives.” The circulation of ethnographic-anthropological photography from the Caucasus

The state on the stage : Visual self-representations of progress and power at world’s fairs

Visions of railway tracks and oil pipelines : The reimagination of a region through industrial photography

Albumania at court : Imperial self-representation from cover to cover

Sublime summits and glorious glaciers : The global production and circulation of mountain photography

The international discovery of “national antiquities.” Photographing archaeological sites in the transimperial Caucasus

Conclusions : Caucasus connected

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index

Online resource; title from PDF title page (De Gruyter Brill, viewed August 27, 2026)

Other Format:

Print version: Gutmeyr-Schnur, Dominik, 1987- Camera Caucasica

ISBN:

9798897831159

9798897831142

OCLC:

1611116916

Publisher Number:

CIPO000420172

Access Restriction:

Some versions: Open access versions available from some providers open access