Picturing Place Photography and the Geographical Imagination

by Schwartz, Joan; Ryan, James

• ISBN13: 9781860647512
• ISBN10: 1860647510
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2003-04-19
• Publisher: I. B. Tauris

Summary

The advent of photography opened new worlds to 19th-century viewers, who became able to visualize themselves, their immediate surroundings, their communities, and the world beyond. The geographical imagination'”the ability to know the world and situate oneself in space and time'”fostered the expectations and applications of photographic technologies, and photographic technologies expresses the form and reach of the geographical imagination. This dialectic is the basis of this collection of intriguing essays, which explore the diverse ways in which the relationship manifested.

Author Biography

Joan Schwartz is Senior Photography Specialist at the National Archives of Canada.

James Ryan is Lecturer in Human Geography in the School of Geography, Queen's University, Belfast.

Table of Contents

Figures	vii
Acknowledgements	x
Contributors	xii
Introduction: Photography and the Geographical Imagination	1	(18)
Joan M. Schwartz
James R. Ryan
PART I Picturing Place	19	(96)
La Mission Heliographique: Architectural Photography, Collective Memory and the Patrimony of France, 1851	21	(34)
M. Christine Boyer
Retracing the Outlines of Rome: Intertextuality and Imaginative Geographies in Nineteenth-Century Photographs	55	(19)
Maria Antonella Pelizzari
Visualizing Eternity: Photographic Constructions of the Grand Canyon	74	(22)
David E. Nye
Family as Place: Family Photograph Albums and the Domestication of Public and Private Space	96	(19)
Deborah Chambers
PART II Framing the Nation	115	(78)
Picturing Nations: Landscape Photography and National Identity in Britain and Germany in the Mid-Nineteenth Century	117	(24)
Jens Jager
Capturing and Losing the 'Lie of the Land': Railway Photography and Colonial Nationalism in Early Twentieth-Century South Africa	141	(21)
Jeremy Foster
Constructing the State, Managing the Corporation, Transforming the Individual: Photography, Immigration and the Canadian National Railways, 1925--30	162	(31)
Brian S. Osborne
PART III Colonial Encounters	193	(88)
Emperors of the Gaze: Photographic Practices and Productions of Space in Egypt, 1839--1914	195	(31)
Derek Gregory
Mapping a Sacred Geography: Photographic Surveys by the Royal Engineers in the Holy Land, 1864--68	226	(17)
Kathleen Stewart Howe
Home and Empire: Photographs of British Families in the Lucknow Album, 1856--57	243	(18)
Alison Blunt
Negotiating Spaces: Some Photographic Incidents in the Western Pacific, 1883--84	261	(20)
Elizabeth Edwards
Epilogue	281	(24)
Wunderkammer to World Wide Web: Picturing Place in the Post-Photographic Era	283	(22)
William J. Mitchell
Notes	305	(42)
Index	347