| Photography, Humanitarianism, Empire Contributor(s): Lydon, Jane (Author) |
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ISBN: 1474235506 ISBN-13: 9781474235501 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $171.00 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: July 2016 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Photography | History - History | Australia & New Zealand - General - Political Science | Human Rights |
| Dewey: 770.994 |
| LCCN: 2016003649 |
| Series: Photography, History: History, Photography |
| Physical Information: 0.6" H x 6.7" W x 9.7" (1.15 lbs) 204 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Australian |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: With their power to create a sense of proximity and empathy, photographs have long been a crucial means of exchanging ideas between people across the globe; this book explores the role of photography in shaping ideas about race and difference from the 1840s to the 1948 Declaration of Human Rights. Focusing on Australian experience in a global context, a rich selection of case studies - drawing on a range of visual genres, from portraiture to ethnographic to scientific photographs - show how photographic encounters between Aboriginals, missionaries, scientists, photographers and writers fuelled international debates about morality, law, politics and human rights.Drawing on new archival research, Photography, Humanitarianism, Empire is essential reading for students and scholars of race, visuality and the histories of empire and human rights. |
Contributor Bio(s): Edwards, Elizabeth: - Professor Elizabeth Edwards is Research Professor of Photographic History and Director of the Photographic History Research Centre. A visual and historical anthropologist, she has worked extensively on the relationships between photography, anthropology and history in cross-cultural environments and on the social practices of photography. Her monographs and edited works include Anthropology and Photography (1992), Raw Histories (2001), Photographs Objects Histories (2004), Sensible Objects (2006), Photography, Anthropology and History: Expanding the Frame (2009) and most recently The Camera as Historian: Amateur Photographers and Historical Imagination 1885-1918, (2012). She has published over 70 essays in journals and exhibition catalogues over the years and was recently featured in 50 Key Writers on Photography (2013). She is on the board of major journals in the field including Visual Studies and History of Photography. She recently completed a major HERA/European-funded project on the role of the photographic legacy of the colonial past in contemporary Europe (http//: photoclec.dmu.ac.uk). |