Picturing Empire: Photography and the Visualization of the British Empire by Ryan, James R.
Picturing Empire: Photography and the Visualization of the British Empire by Ryan, James R.

Picturing Empire: Photography and the Visualization of the British Empire

Coinciding with the extraordinary expansion of Britain's overseas empire under Queen Victoria, the invention of photography allowed...
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Author: James R. Ryan
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Language: English
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Picturing Empire: Photography and the Visualization of the British Empire by Ryan, James R.

Picturing Empire: Photography and the Visualization of the British Empire

$1,377.33
Picturing Empire: Photography and the Visualization of the British Empire by Ryan, James R.

Picturing Empire: Photography and the Visualization of the British Empire

$1,377.33
Author: James R. Ryan
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
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Coinciding with the extraordinary expansion of Britain's overseas empire under Queen Victoria, the invention of photography allowed millions to see what they thought were realistic and unbiased pictures of distant peoples and places. This supposed accuracy also helped to legitimate Victorian geography's illuminations of the darkest recesses of the globe with the light of scientific mapping techniques.

But as James R. Ryan argues in Picturing Empire, Victorian photographs reveal as much about the imaginative landscapes of imperial culture as they do about the real subjects captured within their frames. Ryan considers the role of photography in the exploration and domestication of foreign landscapes, in imperial warfare, in the survey and classification of racial types, in hunting with the camera, and in teaching imperial geography to British schoolchildren.

Ryan's careful exposure of the reciprocal relation between photographic image and imperial imagination will interest all those concerned with the cultural history of the British Empire.


Author: James R. Ryan
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 04/11/1998
Pages: 272
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.76lbs
Size: 9.53h x 6.41w x 1.05d
ISBN: 9780226732336


Review Citation(s):
Univ PR Books for Public Libry 01/01/1999 pg. 74 - Recommended/Special Interest

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