Photographing, Exploring and Exhibiting Russian Turkestan: Central Asia on Display
Inessa Kouteinikova, "Photographing, Exploring and Exhibiting Russian Turkestan: Central Asia on Display "
English | ISBN: 0367564165 | 2022 | 216 pages | PDF | 20 MB
English | ISBN: 0367564165 | 2022 | 216 pages | PDF | 20 MB
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 of public exhibitions and emergence of the first ethnographic museums that took pace from Moscow to Tashkent during the time of the Russian conquest. This book embraces the dominant mode for representing the new colonial territories in the mid-late-19th-century Russia, by outlining the technical, commercial and artistic milieus during the Golden Age of Russian orientalism.
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