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Photographing, Exploring and Exhibiting Russian Turkestan: Central Asia on Display book cover

1st Edition

Photographing, Exploring and Exhibiting Russian Turkestan Central Asia on Display

By Inessa Kouteinikova Copyright 2023
224 Pages 64 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

224 Pages 64 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

224 Pages 64 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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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. Inessa Kouteinikova examines these under-studied materials while also addressing the photographic market and reception of photography in the Russian Empire, the position of the popular press, the place... Read more

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

 

Biography

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.

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