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Author : Isaac Schapera
Release : 2007-06-30
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 120/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Picturing a Colonial Past by : Isaac Schapera
Download or read book Picturing a Colonial Past written by Isaac Schapera. This book was released on 2007-06-30. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Publisher Description
Author : Beth Fowkes Tobin
Release : 1999
Genre : Art
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Book Rating : 389/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Picturing Imperial Power by : Beth Fowkes Tobin
Download or read book Picturing Imperial Power written by Beth Fowkes Tobin. This book was released on 1999. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An interdisciplinary study of visual representations of British colonial power in the eighteenth century.
Author : Elizabeth Edwards
Release : 1995
Genre : Travel
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Book Synopsis Picturing Paradise by : Elizabeth Edwards
Download or read book Picturing Paradise written by Elizabeth Edwards. This book was released on 1995. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Eleanor M. Hight
Release : 2013-06-17
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 874/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Colonialist Photography by : Eleanor M. Hight
Download or read book Colonialist Photography written by Eleanor M. Hight. This book was released on 2013-06-17. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Author : Christopher Pinney
Release : 2013-06-01
Genre : Social Science
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Book Rating : 520/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Camera Indica by : Christopher Pinney
Download or read book Camera Indica written by Christopher Pinney. This book was released on 2013-06-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A wedding couple gazes resolutely at viewers from the wings of a butterfly; a portrait surrounded by rose petals commemorates a recently deceased boy. These quiet but moving images represent the changing role of photographic portraiture in India, a topic anthropologist Christopher Pinney explores in Camera Indica. Studying photographic practice in India, Pinney traces photography's various purposes and goals from colonial through postcolonial times. He identifies three key periods in Indian portraiture: the use of photography under British rule as a quantifiable instrument of measurement, the later role of portraiture in moral instruction, and the current visual popular culture and its effects on modes of picturing. Photographic culture thus becomes a mutable realm in which capturing likeness is only part of the project. Lavishly illustrated, Pinney's account of the change from depiction to invention uncovers fascinating links between these evocative images and the society and history from which they emerge.
