Gary D. Sampson is Associate Professor of art history at the Cleveland Institute of Art, Ohio. His recent publications include chapters on the photography of Samuel Bourne and Lala Deen Dayal in India Through the Lens.
Eleanor M. Hight is Associate Professor of art history at the University of New Hampshire, Durham. She is the author of Picturing Modernism: Moholy-Nagy and Photography in Weimar Germany and Jackson Pollock: A Study in Reception.
Colonialist Photography is an absorbing collection of essays and photographs exploring the relationship between photography and European and American colonialism. The book is packed with well over a hundred captivating images, ranging from the first experiments with photography as a documentary medium up to the decolonization of many regions after World War II.
Reinforcing a broad range of Western assumptions and prejudices, Eleanor M. Hight and Gary D. Sampson argue that such images often assisted in the construction of a colonial culture.
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Hardback has been popular but priced too high for individuals; feedback showed that photographers and scholars would like to buy it themselves. Likely to be particularly popular at conferences
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Interdisciplinary - also of interest to media studies/photography students, anthropology students and anyone looking at colonialism more broadly
Beautifully illustrated with 116 halftones
1 Introduction: Photography, "race”, and post-colonial theory 2 Laying ghosts to rest 3 Rewriting the Nubian figure in the photograph: Maxime Du Camp´s "cultural hypochondria” 4 "A pure labor of love”: A publishing history of The People of India 5 Unmasking the colonial picturesque: Samuel Bourne´s photographs of Barrackpore Park 6 Picturing alterity: Representational strategies in Victorian type photographs of Ottoman men 7 The many lives of Beato´s "beauties” 8 Colonial collecting: French women and Algerian cartes postales 9 Photography and the emergence of the Pacific cruise: Rethinking the representational crisis in colonial photography 10 Advertising paradise: Hawai`i in art, anthropology, and commercial photography 11 Capturing race: Anthropology and photography in German and Austrian prisoner-of-war camps during World War I 12 Germaine Krull and L´Amitié noire: World War II and French colonialist film 13 "A better place to live”: Government agency photography and the transformations of the Puerto Rican Jíbaro
An absorbing collection of essays and photographs exploring the relationship between photography and Europe and American colonialism, using case studies and recent forms of interpretive analysis. Now published for the first time in paperback.
This collection of essays and photographs explores the relationship between photography and European and American colonialism. Photographs range from first experiments with photography as a documentary medium, up to the decolonization of many regions after the World War II.
