Photographing Central Asia
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Photographing Central Asia
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Author : Svetlana Gorshenina
language : en
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Release Date : 2022-09-05
Photographing Central Asia written by Svetlana Gorshenina and has been published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-09-05 with History categories.
This 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. The 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. Without 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. The 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. The 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.
Photographing Exploring And Exhibiting Russian Turkestan
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Author : Inessa Kouteinikova
language : en
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Release Date : 2022-12-30
Photographing Exploring And Exhibiting Russian Turkestan written by Inessa Kouteinikova and has been published by Taylor & Francis this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-12-30 with Photography categories.
This book illuminates the crucial role photography played from the very beginning of the Russian colonial presence in Central Asia and its entanglement with the orientalist legacy that followed. Inessa Kouteinikova examines these under-studied materials while also addressing the photographic market and reception of photography in the Russian Empire, the position of the popular press, the place of public exhibitions and emergence of the first ethnographic museums that took pace from Moscow to Tashkent during the time of the Russian conquest. This book embraces the dominant mode for representing the new colonial territories in the mid-late-19th-century Russia, by outlining the technical, commercial and artistic milieus during the Golden Age of Russian orientalism. The book will be of interest to scholars working in art history, history of photography and Russian studies.
Photographing Central Asia
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Author : Svetlana Gorshenina
language : en
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Release Date : 2022-09-06
Photographing Central Asia written by Svetlana Gorshenina and has been published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-09-06 with History categories.
This 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. The 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. Without 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. The 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. The 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.
N2 Uzbekistan
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Author : Dominic Ambrose
language : en
Publisher: CreateSpace
Release Date : 2014-08-01
N2 Uzbekistan written by Dominic Ambrose and has been published by CreateSpace this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-08-01 with categories.
In Samarkand, Khiva, Bukhara and Tashkent, Dominic Ambrose takes a journey to the sources of the Silk Road. These photographs were taken in the late 1990s at marketplaces, town squares and in the shadow of ancient monuments, where the traditional and the modern come together as food vendors, street performers and artisans gradually step into a post-Soviet era. Printed in traditional book form, they appear fixed in their time and cultural space. The N2 photography series will use Twentieth Century print media to showcase images from that era. The unique experience of viewing illustrations on paper was a hallmark of Twentieth Century mass pubication and became the standard method by which millions of people became familiar with the world beyond their own towns. Newspapers, magazines, advertising and textbooks all used black and white photography to such a wide extent that people learned to ignore the limitations and feel a direct connection to the scenes depicted. What now seem like quaint, distant artifacts from a more clumsy age were in their time, the epitomy of communication. N2 photography aims to recreate that feeling of connectedness, and to repropose the newsprint photograph as a viable aesthetic experience. The 1990s proved to be a challenging time for Uzbekistan and all of Central Asia. Not only did the economics of communism leave the country impoverished and ill placed in the modern world, but also with an irrelevant social structure as well. What would replace the Soviet ideals, hierarchies and values, all based on failed European models? This land of ancient traditions came out of the Soviet era with a sense that its bonds to its native Uzbek culture had been severly damaged by 70 years of Bolshevik rule. There was a feeling among much of the Uzbek elite that traditional bonds needed to be reinforced, while at the same time, a new modern identity had to be created. When Dominic Ambrose visited the country in 1997, as part of the government's UMID scholarship program, these new goals were being implemented as state policy, and the effects were everywhere.
Travelling Through The Eye Of History
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Author : Daniel Schwartz
language : en
Publisher: National Geographic Books
Release Date : 2009-06-02
Travelling Through The Eye Of History written by Daniel Schwartz and has been published by National Geographic Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-06-02 with Photography categories.
Central Asia is the subject matter of this travelogue by a photographer working in the tradition of the great nineteenth-century explorers. The Silk Road, Transcaspia, the Pamir Highway, the Alai Corridor, the Khyber Pass, the Taklamakhan Desert: this is the magnificent terrain where the geopolitical ambitions of empires have played out. Central Asia is the largest natural fortress on earth, traversed by a few routes that have been used by traders and armies since earliest times and are still today the arteries for those in search of power, profit, or refuge. Warlords, border officials, businessmen, smugglers, and refugees are among those who populate the landscapes depicted here, from desert heartlands to zones of war and uneasy peace.
Marco Polo
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Author : Michael S. Yamashita
language : en
Publisher: White Star
Release Date : 2011
Marco Polo written by Michael S. Yamashita and has been published by White Star this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011 with Photography categories.
Features color photographs taken by the photographer that retraces Marco Polo's expedition from Venice through central Asia, travels in China, and return to Venice by sea.
Light From The Middle East
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Author : Marta Rachel Weiss
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2012
Light From The Middle East written by Marta Rachel Weiss and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012 with Artists categories.
Light from the Middle East explores the various ways that contemporary Middle Eastern artists deploy the language and techniques of photography. Whether embracing the capacity of photography to record or bear witness, or subverting that process in order to highlight its susceptibility to manipulation and recontextualization, they use the medium to tell stories, to question, and to challenge. This book accompanies an exhibition at the Victoria and Albert Museum (13 November 2012-7 April 2013), the first major museum exhibition of contemporary Middle Eastern photography. It presents over 25 artists from across the greater Middle East (including North Africa and Central Asia), whose multiple viewpoints are appropriate to a region where collisions between personal, social, religious and political life can be emotive and complex. It includes a wide array of work made by artists living in the region and in diaspora, ranging from photojournalism to staged and digitally manipulated photographs.
Soviet Asia
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Author : Roberto Conte
language : en
Publisher: Fuel Publishing
Release Date : 2019-04-25
Soviet Asia written by Roberto Conte and has been published by Fuel Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-04-25 with Photography categories.
A fantastic collection of Soviet Asian architecture, many photographed here for the first time Soviet Asia explores the Soviet modernist architecture of Central Asia. Italian photographers Roberto Conte and Stefano Perego crossed the former Soviet republics of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan and Tajikistan, documenting buildings constructed from the 1950s until the fall of the USSR. The resulting images showcase the majestic, largely unknown, modernist buildings of the region. Museums, housing complexes, universities, circuses, ritual palaces - all were constructed using a composite aesthetic. Influenced by Persian and Islamic architecture, pattern and mosaic motifs articulated a connection with Central Asia. Grey concrete slabs were juxtaposed with colourful tiling and rectilinear shapes broken by ornate curved forms: the brutal designs normally associated with Soviet-era architecture were reconstructed with Eastern characteristics. Many of the buildings shown in Soviet Asia are recorded here for the first time, making this book an important document, as despite the recent revival of interest in Brutalist and Modernist architecture, a number of them remain under threat of demolition. The publication includes two contextual essays, one by Alessandro De Magistris (architect and History of Architecture professor, University of Milan, contributor to the book Vertical Moscow) and the other by Marco Buttino (Modern and Urban History professor, University of Turin, specializing in the history of social change in the USSR).
Passage To Afghanistan
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Author : Peter Bussian
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2016-11-29
Passage To Afghanistan written by Peter Bussian and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-11-29 with Travel categories.
In 2001, the Taliban approved Peter Bussian’s request to photograph Afghanistan, asking him to “show the world the true Afghanistan,” and for the past fifteen years, he’s followed through on his promise to do so. In total, Bussian has spent nearly four years on the ground in Afghanistan, traveling there as both a photojournalist and with aid organizations such as the United Nations. In this entrancing volume, Bussian presents 150 photographs of what he calls “the land that time forgot.” His captivating images feature everything from jaw-dropping landscapes—jagged mountains, desolate deserts, broad planes, and lush valleys—to its passionate people—Kabul street vendors and donkey cart drivers, devout Muslims, and displaced refugees. A fascinating introduction gives perspective on the special allure of the land—a place whose mystery was described by great poets, such as Rumi and Kipling, and that today is grounded in the fierce independence of its people, a physical and mental toughness that survives, even thrives, despite forty years of uninterrupted wars, and great famines. Side-by-side with the photographs are enlightening captions to give context to the compelling, memorable images. As a compilation, this is one of the most significant visual volumes of our time. While the world is at war with terrorism, Afghanistan, for many, represents the start of it all: the home of the terrorists behind 9/11 and the physical center of where America began its war on terrorism. To understand what we are up against and what follows Western intervention, here, at last, is a visual gateway: a portal to a significant, but little-understand land.
Shaking The Dust Of Ages
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Author : Ljalja Kuznetsova
language : en
Publisher: Aperture
Release Date : 1999-07
Shaking The Dust Of Ages written by Ljalja Kuznetsova and has been published by Aperture this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999-07 with categories.
Shaking the Dust of Ages: Gypsies & Wanderers of the Central Asian Steppe, with photographs by Ljalja Kuznetsova & an introduction by Inge Morath, was recently published by Aperture in the Spring of 1998. This boy at play in Kazakhstan is one of Ljalja Kuznetsova's rare, intimate portraits of Central Asian gypsies. It is available in a special edition, limited to 100 16 x 20" gelatin-silver prints & fifteen artist's proofs signed & numbered by the photographer.