| Summary: | "Set against the Caucasus at the intersection of power and rule of the Russian, Ottoman, and Iranian empires in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, Camera Caucasica demonstrates that photographs are ultimately the result of complex and entangled networks of cultural traditions, political developments, and economic processes. It tells stories of Italian mountaineers, Austrian art historians, Swedish oil barons, Georgian nurses, Armenian court photographers, and Russian anthropologists, who together shaped the development of photography in the Caucasus, presenting both the history of photography and that of the region as a whole through approaches centered on cross-border collaboration and entanglement, ultimately bringing a seemingly peripheral region to the center of a global research field"-- Provided by publisher.
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