Title & Author:

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

Publication:

Berlin : De Gruyter, [2015]

Description:

viii, 346 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Photo archives and the idea of nation -- Introduction : photographs, archives and the discourse of nation / Costanza Caraffa and Tiziana Serena -- Photographic archives and the idea of nation : images, imaginings, and imagined community / Joan M. Schwartz -- Photo archives, identity, heritage -- Photography, the archive and the invention of the American West / Martha A. Sandweiss -- Performing ethnography/projecting history : photography and Irish cultural nationalism in Ulster / Justin Carville -- Before the museum : photography and the construction of the canon of Polish material culture / Ewa Manikowska -- Dalmatia in the visual narrative : Georg Kowalczyk and Cornelius Gurlitt : an atlas of photographs of Dalmatian monuments / Joško Belamarić -- Monumenta historiae patriae : Marubi's photographic documentation (1858-1970) and the birth of the Albanian nation / Roberto Mancini -- Toward an iconology of medieval studies : approaches to visual narratives in modern scholarship / Bernhard Jussen -- Microfilm services and their application to scholarly study, scientific research, education and re-education in the post-war period / Rolf Sachsse -- Cultural heritage, nation, Italian state : politics of the photographic archive between centre and periphery / Tiziana Serena -- Photo archives, revolution, national heroes -- "And the bombs fell for many nights" : Stefano Lecchi's photographys of the 1849 siege of Rome in the Cheney album / Isotta Poggi -- The photographic portrait of Georgi Benkovski, or the de-archiving of the national hero / Martina Baleva -- Archives and icons : constructing post-revolutionary identities in Mexico / John Mraz -- 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 / Patricia Hayes -- Nostalgia for the modern : archive fever in Egypt in the age of post-photography / Lucie Ryzova -- Afterword -- Photographs as strong history? / Elizabeth Edwards.

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 {u0091}truth.{u0092} With their rhetorical power and presumed {u0091}truthfulness,{u0092} 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.

ISBN:

9783110331813 (paperback)
3110331810 (paperback)
(EPUB)
9783110390032
(PDF)
9783110331837
9783110331844 (print + online)
3110331837
3110390035

Subject:

Photograph collections.
Photography Archive applications.
Art Historiography.
Photography, Artistic.
Nationalism.
Photographies Collectionneurs et collections.
Art Historiographie.
Photographie artistique.
Nationalisme.
Collections de photographies.
Photographie Applications en archivistique.
art photography.
nationalism.

Added entries:

Caraffa, Costanza.
Serena, Tiziana.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 292499
Call No.: BIB 236817
Status: Available