Photography and cultural heritage in the age of nationalisms : Europe's eastern borderlands (1867-1945) / Ewa Manikowska.

GBP 85.00/-

Includes bibliographical references.

The empire looks westward : Russia's national and imperial identity and it's western and Polish borderlands -- Within the imperial frameworks and under Western influences : the making of cultural heritage of a stateless nation -- On the crossroad of the West and the East : the multi-ethnic cultural landscape of Eastern Galicia and the Pale of Settlement -- Picturing Polish art patrimony in the Second Polish Republic : the legacy of the 19th-century atlas tradition -- The German vision of the Eastern Europe at the time of the two world wars -- Mapping the new political order : cultural heritage and photography during the Post-World War I peace negotiations -- Afterlifes.

This book examines the role of photography as a powerful language of expressing collective identities in Eastern Europe during the period of dramatic socio-political transformation associated with the slow rise of national and ethnic consciousness, the dawn of empire and the outbreak of the two World Wars.

From the 1867 All-Russian Ethnographic Exhibition to the war-time Nazi scientific surveys, this innovative account looks closely at how photographic practices and records were applied, borrowed, appropriated, transmitted to exert or subvert power, and used as a tool in negotiating collective identities. Discussing a wide range of little-known archives, libraries of scientific institutions, learned societies, and professional and amateur photographers, it focuses on those ambitious photographic projects which not only shaped the various national, ethnic or imperial identities but also went to the heart of the idea of Eastern Europe.

By juxtaposing photography with other visual and non-visual heritage discourses and practices, this book offers both a new perspective in the field of East European studies and a novel approach to the history of photography.