ABSTRACT
In the 1990s, eastern Europe has risen to one of the most speedily evolving subject areas of academic studies within a great number of disciplines, including history, anthropology, politics, economics, human geography, social and urban studies, literature, art history, and visual culture. This chapter examines the images which are addressed to the narrowest circle of readers, to the fellow authors and their students, who constitute a more clearly defined social strata than the consumers of maps, travel images and cartoons. The rise of the photography-based covers in cultural studies books in the last decade of the twentieth century coincided with the boom for books on East Central Europe.
