Photography and Cultural Heritage in the Age of Nationalisms

The second half of the 19th century was a time of extensive political upheaval in central east Europe that saw the negotiation of conflicting territorial claims in the region by the Russian, Austrian and Prussian empires

Autorentext
Ewa Manikowska is Assistant Professor at the Institute of Art, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland. She has presented and published many papers and chapters on survey photography and cultural heritage in the Polish lands of the Russian Empire.

Inhalt
List of Illustrations1. Introduction2. The Imperial Gaze: Photography and the Cultural Appropriation of the Borderlands3. Unofficial Views: Voluntary Associations, Photographic Surveys and the Quest for National Self-Determination4. Mapping the New Political Order: Cultural Heritage, the Photographic Album and the Post-WWI Peace Negotiations5. 'Imperial Practices': Picturing Polish Official Cultural Heritage in the Iconographic Archive6. Neglected Visions: Lithuanian, Ukranian and Jewish Narratives7. From the Civilizing Mission to Cultural Germanisation: Ostforschung and the Photographic Survey Archive8. Conclusions: Afterlives and LegaciesBibliographyIndex