seized by colonial authorities—I argue here that photography functioned as an imperial tool of (im)migration control, especially over colonial subjects. Men and women who could not provide the required portrait could be denied papers, and thus be
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Photography, Identity, and Migration
Controlling Colonial Migrants in Interwar France and Senegal
Johann Le Guelte
In French Politics, Culture & Society
- Published (Print):
- 01 Dec 2019
- Article Type:
- Research Article
- Pages:
- 27–52 (26 total)
Photography as Archive
The Self and Other in Isolation: An Interview with Saiful Huq Omi, followed by The Human that Is Lacking: A response to Saiful Huq Omi's photograph
Yousif M. Qasmiyeh and Saiful Huq Omi
, photographers capture in and under such conditions? Can photography, for instance, photograph itself? Can it, at least, return to its innate interiority when exteriority (in light of these far-reaching lockdowns) is no longer permissible? Saiful Huq Omi (SHO
In Migration and Society
- Published (Print):
- 01 Jun 2021
- Article Type:
- Discussion
- Pages:
- 195–202 (8 total)
Early Field Photography and Visual Documents of Northern Indigenous Cultures
Ivan Poliakov’s Collection, 1876
Ekaterina B. Tolmacheva
Field, and particularly ethnographic and anthropological, photography, began to develop in Russia in the 1870s. A particular surge of interest in visual documentation of culture can be traced back to an ethnographic exhibition held in Moscow in 1867
The Return of the Republic
Crowd Photography and the Liberation in Toulouse, 1944–1945
Hanna Diamond
A variety of media, written and visual, memorialized the Liberation of France even as it was taking place and immediately thereafter. * Photography, in particular, played a significant role in portraying events both in the press and in the many
In French Politics, Culture & Society
- Published (Print):
- 01 Mar 2019
- Article Type:
- Research Article
- Pages:
- 90–116 (27 total)
Geographical Imagination, Anthropology, and Political Exiles
Photographers of Siberia in Late Imperial Russia
Tatiana Saburova
, persuading entire villages to pick up and move there in search of a better life. This article focuses on themes connected with the history of photography, exile, science, and representations of Siberia, and is part of a broader discussion about how Asia
On Photography, History, and Affect
Re-Narrating the Political Life of a Laotian Subject
Panivong Norindr
This essay considers the role of personal, affective history in shaping historiography, and more precisely, a post-colonial history of Laos. Relying on a variety of sources, official and family photographs, US diplomatic documents, telegrams and personal notes, and against the backdrop of multiple losses, this article problematizes the questions of biography and the complex links between the personal and the "historical" by narrating my father's professional trajectory over three decades as a civil servant and career diplomat. Pheng Norindr represented Laos at the 1962 Geneva Conference and became the Laotian envoy to the United Stated during the Vietnam War. His entanglement with French colonialism and Cold War politics offers a point of entry into a Laotian historiography that is critical of a monolithic Western history of Laos.
In Historical Reflections/Réflexions Historiques
- Published (Print):
- 01 Mar 2008
- Article Type:
- Research Article
- Pages:
- 89–103 (15 total)
A Resolute Display
Culture, Life and Intersectional Identity in Israeli Druze Photography
Lindsey Pullum
/Palestinian photography and visual archives to mobilise the photograph as a form of cultural critique on Israeli visual history and speak back to forms of erasure conducted by the Israeli state after 1948. The decolonial project of photography seeks to make visible the
In Anthropology of the Middle East
- Published (Print):
- 01 Jun 2019
- Article Type:
- Research Article
- Pages:
- 87–107 (21 total)
Nicole Hudgins
present day. 3 The avalanche of ruin photography in the archives, albums, publications, and propaganda of World War I France challenges us to understand what functions such images fulfilled beyond their use as visual records. Did wartime images of
In Historical Reflections/Réflexions Historiques
- Published (Print):
- 01 Dec 2016
- Article Type:
- Research Article
- Pages:
- 51–70 (20 total)
Unruly Landscapes and the City of London
Mobility Studies, Street Photography, and Stephen McLaren's The Crash
Susan P. Mains
do not walk off into other hands. Documenting reactions to the financial crises in the City of London during 2008, these images highlight the constantly shifting terrain of street photography and the effect of the tragic/tranquil juxtaposition—a woman
(Dis)Connecting Tourism and Photography
Corporeal Travel and Imaginative Travel
Jonas Larsen
Many connections between mobility and photography are traced and established in this article. It is shown that photography entered discourses of tourism before photography was even invented. Sketching and image hunting were central to pre-photographic tourists and they voiced passionate desires for a machine that could easily fix the fleeting and elusive image of the camera obscura and Claude glasses. The difficulties that Talbot experienced while drawing a foreign prospect with the camera obscura led him to invent photography, while Eastman reinvented photography after realising through his own body that holiday picturing meant 'travelling heavy'. The early history of photography is intimately linked to travel and tourism: pre-photographic tourists desired photography and it became designed with the tourist in mind and later for 'travelling light'. Lightweight and reproducible, photographs were designed for movement too. They were crucial in putting the world on display and globalising the 'tourist gaze'. At a time where travelling was associated with fatigue, hassles and risks on the one hand and visual pleasures on the other, photographs seamlessly transported distant places to the convenient and safe armchair. They allow touristic visual consumption where no actual tourism takes place.