Photo Archives and the Idea of Nation

Costanza Caraffa; Tiziana Serena

Published by De Gruyter 2015

Photo Archives and the Idea of Nation

Costanza Caraffa and Tiziana Serena

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110331837

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About this book

The Connective Tissue of the Nation

The question of the (photographic) construction and representation of national identity is not limited to the ‘long 19th century’, but is a current issue in the post-colonial, post-global, digital world. The essays by international contributors aim at studying the relationship between photographic archives and the idea of nation, yet without focusing on single symbolic icons and instead considering the wider archival and sedimental dimension.

With essays by international experts including Elizabeth Edwards and Joan M. Schwartz

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Costanza Caraffa, Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz. Max-Planck-Institut, Italy; Tiziana Serena, University of Florence, Italy.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	I
Content Publicly Available Download PDF	V
Foreword Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	VII
Photo Archives and the Idea of Nation
Introduction: Photographs, Archives and the Discourse of Nation Costanza Caraffa and Tiziana Serena Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	3
Photographic Archives and the Idea of Nation: Images, Imaginings, and Imagined Community Joan M. Schwartz Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	17
Photo Archives, Identity, Heritage
Photography, the Archive and the Invention of the American West Martha A. Sandweiss Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	43
Performing Ethnography / Projecting History: Photography and Irish Cultural Nationalism in Ulster Justin Carville Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	59
Before the Museum: Photography and the Construction of the Canon of Polish Material Culture Ewa Manikowska Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	77
Dalmatia in the Visual Narrative. Georg Kowalczyk and Cornelius Gurlitt: An Atlas of Photographs of Dalmatian Monuments Joško Belamarić Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	95
Monumenta Historiae Patriae: Marubi’s Photographic Documentation (1858–1970) and the Birth of the Albanian Nation Roberto Mancini Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	119
Toward an Iconology of Medieval Studies: Approaches to Visual Narratives in Modern Scholarship Bernhard Jussen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	141
Microfilm Services and their Application to Scholarly Study, Scientific Research, Education and Re-Education in the Post-War Period Rolf Sachsse Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	167
Cultural Heritage, Nation, Italian State: Politics of the Photographic Archive between Centre and Periphery Tiziana Serena Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	179
Photo Archives, Revolution, National Heroes
“And the Bombs Fell for Many Nights.” Stefano Lecchi’s photographs of the 1849 Siege of Rome in the Cheney Album Isotta Poggi Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	203
The Photographic Portrait of Georgi Benkovski, or the De-Archiving of the National Hero Martina Baleva Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	221
Archives and Icons: Constructing Post-Revolutionary Identities in Mexico John Mraz Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	239
Photo Archives as Construction
“You need not take a camel …”: The Archive of the Afghan Tourist Organization Holly Edwards Holly Edwards Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	265
Compound Nation: Migrant Worker Portraits in the Politics and Photography of 1980s Namibia Patricia Hayes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	279
Nostalgia for the Modern: Archive Fever in Egypt in the Age of Post-Photography Lucie Ryzova Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	301
Afterword
Photographs as Strong History? Elizabeth Edwards Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	321
Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	331
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	335

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter
Audience: Art and cultural scholars, photography historians, archive scientists
Pages
- Front matter: 8
- Main content: 346
Illustrations
- Illustrations: 170

eBook

Published: December 16, 2014
ISBN: 9783110331837

Paperback

Published: December 11, 2014
ISBN: 9783110331813