Photography, History: History, Photography
About the Book Series
This field-defining series explores the inseparable relationship between photography and history. Bringing together perspectives from a broad disciplinary base it investigates what wider histories of, for example, wars, social movements, regionality or nationhood, look like when photography and its social and cultural force are brought into the centre of analysis.
British Indian Picture Postcards in Bengaluru: Ephemeral Entanglements
1st Edition
By Emily Stevenson
June 27, 2025
Combining ethnographic and archival research, this book examines the lives of colonial-period postcards and reveals how they become objects of contemporary historical imagination in India. Picture postcards were circulated around the world in their billions in the early twentieth century and ...
Photography and Making Bedouin Histories in the Naqab, 1906-2013: An Anthropological Approach
1st Edition
By Emilie Le Febvre
June 27, 2025
Introducing a novel anthropological study of photography in the Middle East, Emilie Le Febvre takes us to the Naqab Desert where Bedouin use photographs to make, and respond to, their own histories. She argues Bedouin presentations of the past are selective but increasingly reliant on archival ...
Photography, Bearing Witness and the Yugoslav Wars, 1988-2021: Testimonies of Light
1st Edition
By Paul Lowe
October 08, 2024
Combining case studies with theoretical and philosophical insights, this book explores the role of photography in representing conflict and genocide, both during and after the break-up of Yugoslavia. Concentrating on the photographer, this book considers the practice of photojournalism rather than ...
Photography, Reconstruction and the Cultural History of the Postwar European City
1st Edition
By Tom Allbeson
January 29, 2024
Examining imagery of urban space in Britain, France and West Germany up to the early 1960s, this book reveals how photography shaped individual architectural projects and national rebuilding efforts alike. Exploring the impact of urban photography at a pivotal moment in contemporary European ...
Public Images: Celebrity, Photojournalism, and the Making of the Tabloid Press
1st Edition
By Ryan Linkof
June 30, 2021
The stolen snapshot is a staple of the modern tabloid press, as ubiquitous as it is notorious. The first in-depth history of British tabloid photojournalism, this book explores the origin of the unauthorised celebrity photograph in the early 20th century, tracing its rise in the 1900s through to ...
Photography and Cultural Heritage in the Age of Nationalisms: Europe's Eastern Borderlands (1867–1945)
1st Edition
By Ewa Manikowska
March 31, 2021
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. The post-WW1 settlement gave rise to the formation of the independent nation ...
Victorian Photography, Literature, and the Invention of Modern Memory: Already the Past
1st Edition
By Jennifer Green-Lewis
November 05, 2020
Analysing a broad range of texts by inventors, cultural critics, photographers, and novelists, this book argues that Victorian photography ultimately defined the concept of memory for generations to come – including our own. The book will be of interest to students of Victorian and modernist ...
Photographing Tutankhamun: Archaeology, Ancient Egypt, and the Archive
1st Edition
By Christina Riggs
December 27, 2018
They are among the most famous and compelling photographs ever made in archaeology: Howard Carter kneeling before the burial shrines of Tutankhamun; life-size statues of the boy king on guard beside a doorway, tantalizingly sealed, in his tomb; or a solid gold coffin still draped with flowers cut ...
Photography, Humanitarianism, Empire
1st Edition
By Jane Lydon
February 09, 2017
With their power to create a sense of proximity and empathy, photographs have long been a crucial means of exchanging ideas between people across the globe; this book explores the role of photography in shaping ideas about race and difference from the 1840s to the 1948 Declaration of Human Rights. ...