The advent of photography opened up new worlds to 19th century viewers, who were able to visualize themselves and the world beyond in unprecedented detail
The advent of photography opened up new worlds to 19th century viewers, who were able to visualize themselves and the world beyond in unprecedented detail. But the emphasis on the photography's objectivity masked the subjectivity inherent in deciding what to record, from what angle and when. This text examines this inherent subjectivity. Drawing on photographs that come from personal albums, corporate archives, commercial photographers, government reports and which were produced as art, as record, as data, the work shows how the photography shaped and was shaped by geographical concerns.
Contents vi Figures vii Acknowledgements x Contributors xii
Introduction: Photography and the Geographical Imagination 1 Joan M. Schwartz
and James R. Ryan PART I Picturing Place 19 1 La Mission Heliographique:
Architectural Photography, Collective Memory and the Patrimony of France,
1851 21 M. Christine Boyer 2 Retracing the Outlines of Rome: Intertextuality
and Imaginative Geographies in Nineteenth-Century Photographs 55 Maria
Antonella Pelizzari 3 Visualizing Eternity: Photographic Constructions of the
Grand Canyon 74 David E. Nye 4 Family as Place: Family Photograph Albums and
the Domestication of Public and Private Space 96 Deborah Chambers PART II
Framing the Nation 115 5 Picturing Nations: Landscape Photography and
National Identity in Britain and Germany in the Mid-Nineteenth Century 117
Jens Jager 6 Capturing and Losing the 'Lie of the Land': Railway Photography
and Colonial Nationalism in Early Twentieth-Century South Africa 141 Jeremy
Foster 7 Constructing the State, Managing the Corporation, Transforming the
Individual: Photography, Immigration and the Canadian National Railways,
1925-30 162 Brian S. Osbourne PART III Colonial Encounters 193 8 Emperors of
the Gaze: Photographic Practices and Productions of Space in Egypt, 1839-1914
195 Derek Gregory 9 Mapping a Sacred Geography:Photographic Surveys by the
Royal Engineers in the Holy Land, 1864-68 226 Kathleen Stewart Howe 10 Home
and Empire:Photographs of British Families in the Lucknow Album 1856-57 243
Alison Blunt 11 Negotiating Spaces: Some Photographic Incidents in the
Western Pacific, 1883-84 261 Elizabeth Edwards Epilogue 281 12 Wunderkammer
to World Wide Web:Picturing Place in the Post-Photographic Era 283 William J.
Mitchell Notes 305 Index 347
Joan M. Schwartz is Senior Photography Specialist at the National Archives of Canada, Ottawa. James R. Ryan is Lecturer in Human Geography at The Queen's University, Belfast.
