Photographs as Strong History?

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Content V
3. Foreword VII
4. Photo Archives and the Idea of Nation
5. Introduction: Photographs, Archives and the Discourse of Nation 3
6. Photographic Archives and the Idea of Nation: Images, Imaginings, and Imagined Community 17
7. Photo Archives, Identity, Heritage
8. Photography, the Archive and the Invention of the American West 43
9. Performing Ethnography / Projecting History: Photography and Irish Cultural Nationalism in Ulster 59
10. Before the Museum: Photography and the Construction of the Canon of Polish Material Culture 77
11. Dalmatia in the Visual Narrative. Georg Kowalczyk and Cornelius Gurlitt: An Atlas of Photographs of Dalmatian Monuments 95
12. Monumenta Historiae Patriae: Marubi’s Photographic Documentation (1858–1970) and the Birth of the Albanian Nation 119
13. Toward an Iconology of Medieval Studies: Approaches to Visual Narratives in Modern Scholarship 141
14. Microfilm Services and their Application to Scholarly Study, Scientific Research, Education and Re-Education in the Post-War Period 167
15. Cultural Heritage, Nation, Italian State: Politics of the Photographic Archive between Centre and Periphery 179
16. Photo Archives, Revolution, National Heroes
17. “And the Bombs Fell for Many Nights.” Stefano Lecchi’s photographs of the 1849 Siege of Rome in the Cheney Album 203
18. The Photographic Portrait of Georgi Benkovski, or the De-Archiving of the National Hero 221
19. Archives and Icons: Constructing Post-Revolutionary Identities in Mexico 239
20. Photo Archives as Construction
21. “You need not take a camel …”: The Archive of the Afghan Tourist Organization Holly Edwards 265
22. Compound Nation: Migrant Worker Portraits in the Politics and Photography of 1980s Namibia 279
23. Nostalgia for the Modern: Archive Fever in Egypt in the Age of Post-Photography 301
24. Afterword
25. Photographs as Strong History? 321
26. Contributors 331
27. Index 335