Colonialist photography : imag(in)ing race and place / edited by Eleanor M. Hight and Gary D. Sampson. - xiv, 328 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 25 cm. - Documenting the image . - Documenting the image. .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: Photography, "race", and post-colonial theory / Laying ghosts to rest / Rewriting the Nubian figure in the photograph: Maxime Du Camp's "cultural hypochondria" / "A pure labor of love": A publishing history of The People of India / Unmasking the colonial picturesque: Samuel Bourne's photographs of Barrackpore Park / Picturing alterity: Representational strategies in Victorian Type photographs of Ottoman men / The many lives of Beato's "beauties" / Colonial collecting: French women and Algerian cartes postales / Photography and the emergence of the Pacific cruise: Rethinking the representational crisis in colonial photography / Advertising paradise: Hawai'i in art, anthropology, and commercial photography / Capturing race: Anthropology and photography in German and Austrian prisoner-of-war camps during World War I / Germaine Krull and L'Amitie noire: World War II and French colonialist film / "A better place to live": Government agency photography and the transformations of the Puerto Rican Jibaro / Eleanor M. Hight and Gary D. Sampson -- Brenda L. Croft -- Julia Ballerini -- John Falconer -- Gary D. Sampson -- Ayshe Erdogdu -- Eleanor M. Hight -- Rebecca J. Deroo -- Michael Hayes -- Patricia Johnston -- Andrew D. Evans -- Kim Sichel -- Oscar E. Vazquez. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13.

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Imperialism in art
Photography--History--Europe
Photography--History--United States

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