Photography and cultural heritage in the age of nationalisms : Europe's eastern borderlands (1867-1945) /
This book examines the role of photography as a powerful language of expressing collective identities in eastern Europe during the period of dramatic socio-political transformation associated with the slow rise of national and ethnic consciousness, the dawn of empire and the outbreak of the two Worl...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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London ; New York :
Bloomsbury Visual Arts,
[2019]
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| Series: | Photography, history: history, photography.
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| Summary: | This book examines the role of photography as a powerful language of expressing collective identities in eastern Europe during the period of dramatic socio-political transformation associated with the slow rise of national and ethnic consciousness, the dawn of empire and the outbreak of the two World Wars. From the 1867 All-Russian Ethnographic Exhibition to the war-time Nazi scientific surveys, this innovative account looks closely at how photographic practices and records were applied, borrowed, appropriated, transmitted to exert or subvert power and used as a tool in negotiating collective identities. By juxtaposing photography with other visual and non-visual heritage discourses and practices, this book offers both a new perspective in the field of East European studies and a novel approach to the history of photography. |
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| Physical Description: | xvi, 240 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781472585660 1472585666 |