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

Published
Berlin, Germany : De Gruyter, 2015.
Copyright Date
©2015
Physical Description
1 online resource (356 pages) : illustrations, photographs
Additional Creators
Caraffa, Costanza and Serena, Tiziana
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Language Note
English.
Contents
Machine generated contents note: 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 / Josko Belamaric -- 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 photographs of the 1849 Siege of Rome in the Cheney Album / Isotta Poggi -- Photographic Portrait of Georgi Benkovski, or the De-Archivi 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.
Summary
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.
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ISBN
9783110331837 (electronic bk.)
3110331837 (electronic bk.)
9783110390032 (EPUB)
3110390035 (EPUB)
3110331810
9783110331813
9783110331844 (print + online)
3110331845 (print + online)
Digital File Characteristics
text file
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.
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