LEADER 02680nam 2200361 450 001 9910629588603321 005 20230513230500.0 035 $a(CKB)5590000001000887 035 $a(NjHacI)995590000001000887 035 $a(EXLCZ)995590000001000887 100 $a20230513d2022 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 00$aPhotographing Central Asia $efrom the periphery of the Russian empire to global presence /$fedited by Svetlana Gorshenina [and three others] 210 1$aBerlin :$cDe Gruyter,$d2022. 215 $a1 online resource (viii, 431 pages) $cillustrations (some color) 225 1 $aWorlds of south and inner Asia 311 $a3-11-075456-8 330 $aThis volume addresses new theoretical approaches in visual and memory studies that prompted to rethink of the photography of Russian Turkestan of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Attempts to relate the visual unknown documentations to postcolonial criticism also opened up new interpretive arenas, helping to decentralize the analysis of the history of photography.00The aim of this volume is to interpret photography as a specific tool that reifies reality, subjectively frames it, and fits it into various political, ideological, commercial, scientific, and artistic contexts.00Without reducing the entire argument to the binary of ?photography and power?, the authors reveal the different modes of seeing that involve distinct cultural norms, social practices, power relations, levels of technology, and networks for circulating photography, and that determined the manner of its (re)use in constructing various images of Central Asia.00The volume demonstrates that photography was the cornerstone of imperial media governance and discourse construction in colonial Turkestan of the tsarist and early Soviet periods. The various cases show the complex mechanisms by which images of Turkestan were created, remembered, or forgotten from the nineteenth until the twenty-first century.00The book should appeal to scholars of the Russian Empire and Central Asia; of history of photography and visual culture; of memory studies. It should be appropriate for use in upper-level undergraduate courses, and even a broader public. 410 0$aWorlds of south and inner Asia. 606 $aDocumentary photography 615 0$aDocumentary photography. 676 $a779.092 702 $aGorshenina$b Svetlana 801 0$bNjHacI 801 1$bNjHacl 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910629588603321 996 $aPhotographing Central Asia$92910052 997 $aUNINA