Photographing, Exploring and Exhibiting Russian Turkestan - Central Asia on Display

List of contents

Introduction 1. Photography on Our Side 2. Albumania a la Russe 3. Ethnographic Dissonance: Russia’s first colonial exhibitions 4. Craftsman of Ethnography: Samuil M. Dudin 5. The Art of Photographic Ethnography: Vasilii Vereshchagin 6. Perusing different Goals in Central Asia: Russian and Foreign explorers and their photographic interests Conclusion

About the author

Inessa Kouteinikova, PhD, is an independent art and architecture historian and curator. She studies colonial Central Asia, Russian and International Orientalism, and the development of the photographic industries in Russian Turkestan, Caucasus and the Crimea from 1860–1917.

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: Inessa Kouteinikova
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.12.2022
• EAN: 9780367564179
• ISBN: 978-0-367-56417-9
• No. of pages: 216
• Series: Routledge History of Photography
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > General, dictionaries; Photography & photographs, The arts: general issues, ART / History / General, PHOTOGRAPHY / History, History of art / art & design styles, Politics & government, History of Art, Regional Studies, Politics and government, Regional / International studies, Regional Geography, Art forms, Photography and photographs, The Arts: art forms, The arts: general topics