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 -- 4e de couverture.
- | Author: Ewa Manikowska
- | Publisher: Routledge
- | Publication Date: Mar 31, 2021
- | Number of Pages: 262 pages
- | Language: English
- | Binding: Paperback
- | ISBN-10: 0367786974
- | ISBN-13: 9780367786977