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Traveling light : photography, travel, and visual culture /

By: Series: Critical imagePublication details: Manchester, UK ; New York : Manchester University Press, 2000.Description: 217 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 0719044006
  • 9780719044007
  • 0719044014
  • 9780719044014
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • TR790 .O83 2000
Contents:
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.
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Item type Current library Collection Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode
Book Book Whitecliffe Library General Shelves General TR 790 OSB (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 0005391
Book Book Whitecliffe Library General Shelves General TR 790 OSB (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 2 Available 0007789

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.

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