ISBN:
9780271081281
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9780271081274
Language:
English
Pages:
xvii, 226 Seiten
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Illustrationen
DDC:
770.941
Keywords:
Great Britain
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Citizenship Colonies 20th century
;
History
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Photography in education Colonies 20th century
;
History
;
Photography Political aspects 20th century
;
Colonies
;
History
;
Commonwealth
;
Fotografie
;
Staatsangehörigkeit
;
Großbritannien
;
Kolonialismus
;
Fotografie
Abstract:
"Examines the relationship between photography and citizenship, through a comprehensive account of the Colonial Office Visual Instruction Committee's lantern slide lecture scheme: a project initiated by the British government at the beginning of the twentieth century that aimed to photograph the entirety of the empire"--Provided by publisher
Abstract:
Introduction : citizenship in and out of sight -- The spectator : projecting imperial citizens in England and India -- The photographer : looking along the archival grain in Canada -- The subject : developing the image of the indentured laborer -- The archive : residues of noncitizens in the COVIC archive -- Conclusion : from imperial to global citizens, picturing citizenship in the present
Note:
Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 205-212
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Mit Index
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Im Impressum: "A different version of chapter 1 was published as 'Photographing Imperial Citizenship: The Colonial Office Visual Instruction Committee's Lanternslide Lectures 1900-1945,' Journal of Visual Culture 16.2 (2017): 190-224. A different version of chapter 3 was published as 'Developing Historical Negatives: The Colonial Photographic Archive as Optical Unconscious,' in Photography and the Optical Unconscious ... (Durham: Duke University Press, 2017), 229-63."
