ABSTRACT
Colonialist Photography is an absorbing collection of essays and photographs exploring the relationship between photography and European and American colonialism. The book is packed with well over a hundred captivating images, ranging from the first experiments with photography as a documentary medium up to the decolonization of many regions after World War II.
Reinforcing a broad range of Western assumptions and prejudices, Eleanor M. Hight and Gary D. Sampson argue that such images often assisted in the construction of a colonial culture.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter 3|21 pages
Rewriting the nubian figure in the photograph
Maxime Du Camp's “cultural hypochondria”
chapter 5|23 pages
Unmasking the colonial picturesque
Samuel Bourne's photographs of Barrackpore Park
chapter 6|19 pages
Picturing alterity
Representational strategies in Victorian type photographs of Ottoman men
chapter 9|16 pages
Photography and the emergence of the pacific cruise
Rethinking the representational crisis in colonial photography
chapter 11|31 pages
Capturing race
Anthropology and photography in German and Austrian prisoner-of-war camps during World War I
chapter 13|35 pages
“A Better place to live”
Government agency photography and the transformations of the Puerto Rican Jíbaro
