Picturing Empire by James R Ryan

Picturing Empire by James R Ryan

Focusing on the role of photography, this book explores the aesthetics of the British empire. Drawing on a broad range of visual imagery, including many photographs, it shows how photographic practices and aesthetics can express and articulate the ideologies of imperialism.

James Ryan's Picturing Empire goes a lot further than provoking and entertainingHis record of the role of photography in the exploration, then military conquest of Empire, and in its justification and maintenance through racist pseudo-science, is an insightful window on the Victorian mind. The Herald Glasgow 'an accessible account of a fascinating aspect of the development of the British Empire as reflected by and even created by photographic images ... a welcome and diverting addition. Mercator's World it finds just the right balance between interpreting the photographs and the practices, which created, maintained and circulated them. Picturing Empire is the sort of book that makes you ask yourself: why hasn't this been written before? Professional Geographer demonstrate[s] the way in which photographic texts contributed to imaginative geographies, how colonial photography was not simply panoptical, and how institutions such as the Royal Geographical Society, and their position of power, provided an ideological basis for photographic imagery. James Ryan deserves high praise for a pioneering work on colonial photography and imperial geography. It will be of interest to readers from a wide range of academic fields. Social & Cultural Geography what distinguishes Picturing Empire is the richness and excellence of its well-researched data Ecumene Picturing Empire succeeds in establishing the modernity of geography's imperialist heritage as our own modernity and, for this, it deserves to be widely read by those interested in geography's past and possible futures. Progress in Human Geography

James R. Ryan is Associate Professor of Historical and Cultural Geography at the University of Exeter. His previous books include Picturing Empire: Photography and the Visualization of the British Empire (Reaktion, 1997), Photography and Exploration (Reaktion, 2013). He is the co-editor of New Spaces of Exploration: Geographies of Discovery in the Twentieth Century (2010).

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ISBN 13	9781861890092
ISBN 10	1861890095
Title	Picturing Empire
Author	James R Ryan
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Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Reaktion Books
Year published	1997-10-01
Number of pages	272
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