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Author:   Eleanor M. Hight (University of New Hampshire, USA) ,  Gary D. Sampson (Cleveland Institute of Art in Ohio, USA)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Volume:   v.9
Dimensions:   Width: 18.90cm , Height: 2.20cm , Length: 24.60cm
Weight:   0.793kg
ISBN:  

9780415274951

ISBN 10:   0415274958
Pages:   344
Publication Date:   13 June 2002
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

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

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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.

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