Around the World: The Grand Tour in Photo Albums - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Around the World: The Grand Tour in Photo Albums write by Barbara Levine. This book was released on 2007-10-04. Around the World: The Grand Tour in Photo Albums available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. With snapshots, passenger lists, itineraries, and postcards, and from Cairo to Burma and back again, authors Barbara Levine and Kirsten Jensen transport readers back to the dawn of world travel when the middle class toured the world for the first time.
The Royal Society and the Discovery of the Two Sicilies
The Royal Society and the Discovery of the Two Sicilies - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Royal Society and the Discovery of the Two Sicilies write by Manuela D’Amore. This book was released on 2017-08-09. The Royal Society and the Discovery of the Two Sicilies available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book illuminates a lesser-known aspect of the British history of travel in the Enlightenment: that of the Royal Society’s special contribution to the “discovery” of the south of Italy in the age of the Grand Tour. By exploring primary source journal entries of philosophy and travel, the book provides evidence of how the Society helped raise the Fellows’ curiosity about the Mediterranean and encouraged travel to the region by promoting cultural events there and establishing fruitful relations with major Italian academic institutions. They were especially devoted to revealing the natural and artistic riches of the Bourbon Kingdom from 1738 to 1780, during which the Roman city of Herculaneum was discovered and Vesuvius and Etna were actively eruptive. Through these examples, the book draws attention to the role that the Royal Society played in establishing cultural networks in Italy and beyond. Tracing a complex path starting in Restoration times, this new insight into discourse on learned travel contributes to a more challenging vision of Anglo-Italian relations in the Enlightenment.
Diverse Voices in Photographic Albums
Diverse Voices in Photographic Albums - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Diverse Voices in Photographic Albums write by Mary Trent. This book was released on 2022-07-29. Diverse Voices in Photographic Albums available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Through a variety of case studies by global scholars from diverse academic fields, this book explores photographic-album practices of historically marginalized figures from a range of time periods, geographic locations, and socio-cultural contexts. Their albums' stories span various racial, ethnic, gender and sexual identities; nationalities; religions; and dis/abilities. The vernacular albums featured in this volume present narratives that move beyond those reflected in our existing histories. Essays examine the visual, material, and aural strategies that album-makers have used to assert control over the presentation of their histories and identities, and to direct what those narratives have to say, a point of special relevance as these albums move out of private domestic space and into public archives, institutions, and digital formats. This book does not consider photographic albums and scrapbooks as separate genres, but as a continuum of modern creative practices of photographic and mass-print collage aimed at self-expression and narrative-building that co-evolved and were readily accessible. The book will be of interest to scholars working in art history, history of photography, visual culture, material culture, media studies, and cultural studies.
Contact Zones
Contact Zones - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Contact Zones write by Justin Carville. This book was released on 2021-06-17. Contact Zones available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Since the mid-nineteenth century photography has played a central role in cultural encounters within and between migrant communities in the United States. Migrant histories have been mediated through the photographic image, and the cultural practices of photography have themselves been transformed as migrant communities mobilise the photographic image to navigate experiences of cultural dislocation and the forging of new identities. Exploring photographic images and the cultural practices of photography as ‘contact zones’ through which cultural exchange and transformation takes place, this volume addresses the role of photography in migrant histories in the United States from the mid-nineteenth century to today. Taking as its focal point photography’s role in shaping migrant experiences of cultural transformation, and how migrant experiences have re-configured culturally differentiated practices of photography, case studies on migration from Europe, Central America, and North America position photography as entwined with cultural histories of migration and cultural transformation in the United States.
I Am My Family
I Am My Family - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook I Am My Family write by Rafael Goldchain. This book was released on 2008-09-03. I Am My Family available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Rafael Goldchain's 'I Am My Family' is a family album of traditional portrait photographs with an unconventional twist - the only subject is Goldchain himself. In an elaborate process involving genealogical research, the use of make-up, hair styling, costume, and props, Goldchain transforms himself into his ancestors.
