Picturing Empire: Photography and the Visualization of the British Empire

by Joan M. Schwartz

Book Overview

Coinciding with the extraordinary expansion of Britain's overseas empire under Queen Victoria, the invention of photography allowed millions to see what they thought were realistic and unbiased pictures of distant peoples and places. This supposed accuracy also helped to legitimate Victorian geography's illuminations of the "darkest" recesses of the globe with the "light" of scientific mapping techniques.

But as James R. Ryan argues in Picturing...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226732339
• ISBN13: 9780226732336
• Release Date: April 1998
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.78 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.4" x 9.5"