1 Introduction: “On the margins of the marginal” – Why are there so few specialists in Central Asian photography of the imperial and early Soviet period?

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Acknowledgements V
3. Contents VII
4. Note on transliteration IX
5. 1 Introduction: “On the margins of the marginal” – Why are there so few specialists in Central Asian photography of the imperial and early Soviet period? 1
6. Part I: Photography and orientalisms
7. 2 Picturing the Other, mapping the Self: Charles-Eugène de Ujfalvy’s anthropological and ethnographic photography in Russian Turkestan (1876–1881) 39
8. 3 Picturing “Russia’s Orient”: The peoples of Russian Turkestan through the lens of Samuil M. Dudin (1900–1902) 63
9. 4 The photographic legacy of Alexander N. Samoilovich (1880–1938) 91
10. 5 Hungarian orientalism as seen through the photographs of György Almásy’s second expedition to the Kazakh and Kyrgyz territories in 1906 129
11. 6 From Siberia to Turkestan: Semirechie in writings and photographs of Vasilii V. Sapozhnikov 165
12. 7 “Another Turkestan” of senator Konstantin von der Pahlen (1908–1909) and engineer Nikolai M. Shchapov (1911–1913) 189
13. Part II: Using and reusing photographs
14. 8 Pre-revolutionary postcards with views of Turkestan 217
15. 9 The Aralsk and Kazalinsk regions in early twentieth-century postcard photography: How does it reflect the social history and modern transformation of the Aral Sea backwater? 249
16. 10 Max Penson: The rise of a Soviet photographer from the margins 267
17. 11 The expeditions of the Academy for the History of Material Culture to Central Asia in the 1920s and 1930s: An examination of its well-known and unknown photographic collections 299
18. 12 “Ethnographic types” in the photographs of Turkestan: Orientalism, nationalisms and the functioning of historical memory on Facebook pages (2017–2019) 329
19. 13 Afterword: Unmarginalising Central Asian Photography 399
20. List of figures and tables 401
21. Geographic index 413
22. Index nominum 417
23. Index rerum 423