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Photographing Central Asia From the Periphery of the Russian Empire to Global Presence

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The volume demonstrates that photography was the cornerstone of imperial media governance and discourse construction in colonial Turkestan of the tsarist and early Soviet periods. The aim of this volume is to interpret photography as a specific tool that reifies reality, subjectively frames it, and...

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Other Authors: Gorshenina, Svetlana (Editor), Abashin, Sergei (Editor), De Cordier, Bruno (Editor), Saburova, Tatiana (Editor)
Format: Electronic Book Chapter
Language:English
Published: Berlin/Boston De Gruyter 2022
Series:Welten Süd- und Zentralasiens / Worlds of South and Inner Asia / Mondes de l'Asie du Sud et de l'Asie Centrale
Subjects:
Photography & photographs
Central Asia
Photography
Image of Asia
Orientalism
Ethnological Photography
History 1876-2019
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Summary:The volume demonstrates that photography was the cornerstone of imperial media governance and discourse construction in colonial Turkestan of the tsarist and early Soviet periods. The aim of this volume is to interpret photography as a specific tool that reifies reality, subjectively frames it, and fits it into various political, ideological, commercial, scientific, and artistic contexts.
Physical Description:1 electronic resource (431 p.)
ISBN:9783110754469
9783110754421
9783110754568
Access:Open Access

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