Traveling light : photography, travel, and visual culture /
Osborne, Peter D. 1947-
Traveling light : photography, travel, and visual culture / - Manchester, UK ; New York : Manchester University Press, 2000. - 217 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm. - Critical image . - Critical image. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
pt. I. Before photography -- 1. Camera portabilis: god, space and optics -- the visualisation of mobility before 1840 -- pt. II. The nineteenth century -- 2. The reverie of power: Victorian travel photography and the depiction of Egypt, the Holy Land and India -- 3. Worlds in a house: the consumption of travel photography in the Victorian middle-class home -- pt. III. Tourisms -- 4. Paradox amusements: tourism and the modern image -- 5. Travel products: promoting the tourist vision -- 6. Sabulous: the beach, the camera and social display -- 7. Fixing Arcadia: the photographic paradise -- pt. IV. Twentieth-century trails -- 8. Neither here nor there: photographers, exiles, the faces of strangers -- 9. Disappearance: twentieth-century photography, act and travelling.
0719044006 9780719044007 0719044014 9780719044014
Travel photography--History.
Travel photography--Philosophy.
TR790 / .O83 2000
Traveling light : photography, travel, and visual culture / - Manchester, UK ; New York : Manchester University Press, 2000. - 217 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm. - Critical image . - Critical image. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
pt. I. Before photography -- 1. Camera portabilis: god, space and optics -- the visualisation of mobility before 1840 -- pt. II. The nineteenth century -- 2. The reverie of power: Victorian travel photography and the depiction of Egypt, the Holy Land and India -- 3. Worlds in a house: the consumption of travel photography in the Victorian middle-class home -- pt. III. Tourisms -- 4. Paradox amusements: tourism and the modern image -- 5. Travel products: promoting the tourist vision -- 6. Sabulous: the beach, the camera and social display -- 7. Fixing Arcadia: the photographic paradise -- pt. IV. Twentieth-century trails -- 8. Neither here nor there: photographers, exiles, the faces of strangers -- 9. Disappearance: twentieth-century photography, act and travelling.
0719044006 9780719044007 0719044014 9780719044014
Travel photography--History.
Travel photography--Philosophy.
TR790 / .O83 2000
