Title & Author:

Picturing place : photography and the geographical imagination / edited by Joan M. Schwartz and James R. Ryan.

Publication:

London ; New York : I.B. Tauris, 2003.

Description:

xiv, 354 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 26 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
La mission héliographique: architectural photography, collective memory and the patrimony of France, 1851 / M. Christine Boyer -- Retracing the outlines of Rome: intertextuality and imaginative geographies in nineteenth-century photographs / Maria Antonella Pelizzari -- Visualizing eternity: photographic constructions of the Grand Canyon / David E. Nye -- Family as place: family photograph albums and the domestication of public and private space / Deborah Chambers -- Picturing nations: landscape photography and national identity in Britain and Germany in the mid-nineteenth century / Jens Jäger -- Capturing and losing the 'lie of the land': railway photography and colonial nationalism in early twentieth-century South Africa / Jeremy Foster -- Constructing the state, managing the corporation, transforming the individual: photography, immigration and the Canadian National Railways, 1925-30 / Brian S. Osborne -- Emperors of the gaze: photographic practices and productions of space in Egypt, 1839-1914 / Derek Gregory -- Mapping a sacred geography: photographic surveys by the Royal Engineers in the Holy Land, 1864-68 / Kathleen Stewart Howe -- Home and empire: photographs of British families in the Lucknow album, 1856-57 / Alison Blunt -- Negotiating spaces: some.
photographic incidents in the Western Pacific, 1883-84 / Elizabeth Edwards -- Wunderkammer to World Wide Web : picturing place in the post-photographic era / William J. Mitchell.
Includes chapter on photography, immigration and the Canadian National Railways.

Summary:

The advent of photography opened up new worlds to 19th century viewers, who were able to visualize themselves and the world beyond in unprecedented detail. But the emphasis on the photography's objectivity masked the subjectivity inherent in deciding what to record, from what angle and when. This text examines this inherent subjectivity. Drawing on photographs that come from personal albums, corporate archives, commercial photographers, government reports and which were produced as art, as record, as data, the work shows how the photography shaped and was shaped by geographical concerns.

Resources:
Table of contents
Contributor biographical information
Publisher description

ISBN:

1860647510 (hbk.)
9781860647512 (hbk.)
1860647529 (pbk.)
9781860647529 (pbk.)

Subject:

Landscape photography Social aspects.
Landscape photography History.
Human ecology.
Human geography.
Photographie de paysages Aspect social.
Photographie de paysages Histoire.
Écologie humaine.
Géographie humaine.
human ecology.
human geography.
Landscape photography
Architecture Aesthetics
Architecture and society
Geografie
Geschichte
Naturfotografie
Fotografie
Aufsatzsammlung
Foto's.
Ruimte (algemeen)
Geografische aspecten.
Visualisatie.
Beeldvorming.
Immigrants Canada 20th century.
Canadian National Railways

Form/genre:

Aufsatzsammlung.
History

Added entries:

Schwartz, Joan M.
Ryan, James R.

Photography and the geographical imagination

Holdings:

Location: Library main 231024
Call No.: TR660 .P5 2003
Copy: pbk. ed.
Status: Available